TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » first sale doctrine 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 Morning Links: Stories you may have missed http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-40/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-40/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:15:22 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=82499 Amazon, Publishers File for Dismissal in Bookseller’s Lawsuit (The Digital Reader) Class Action eBook Royalty Lawsuit Against Harlequin Books Dismissed (Digital Book World) Goodreads Acquisition Presents Opportunity for Library Thing (The Digital Shift) We’re Not Done with First Sale (Scholarly Communications) Kindle Daily Deals: Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke (and 3 others)  

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-40/feed/ 0 The Digital Reselling Issue: What about the customer’s rights? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:00:23 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=79374 Yesterday, TeleRead published two thoughtful essays on the digital reselling issue (here, and here) from author Marilynn Byerly. I appreciate her desire to ensure that any used digital market is fair to authors. I don’t, however, think Amazon is—as she asserts—about to ‘break the law.’ Why not? Because while many have tried to interpret the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/feed/ 13 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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