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Amazon's Ebook License A Scam, Says Doctorow

Posted at 8:05AM Thursday 14 Jan 2010

Says Doctorow: When Amazon "sells" you a Kindle ebook, they don't really sell it to you. If you read the fine-print, you'll see that they're waving their hands furiously and declaring that you aren't "buying" the book, but rather "taking a license to a limited set of uses" for the book.

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