TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 More on Amazon’s used e-books controversy http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:00:35 +0000 Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com/?p=79275 Digital products like e-books are licensed—not sold—to a buyer, so they can’t be legally resold, shared, or loaned. (See my article on e-books and the first sale doctrine for more information.) A group called the Owners’ Rights Initiative wants to change that. The ORI believes that the owner of a digital book should be allowed to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/feed/ 12 Is Amazon About to Break the Law? http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazon-about-to-break-the-law/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazon-about-to-break-the-law/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:04:07 +0000 Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com/?p=79209 Amazon has patented a means to sell used e-books within the Kindle system. A book will be branded within the system when it is bought, and when the buyer puts it up for resale at the Kindle store, it will be removed from his account and transferred to the buyer’s account. Amazon will receive a [...]

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