Everyone Understands Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos, Open Letter to Author’s Guild, 2002:

"When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."

Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007:

"You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content."

Source: The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) The above is Act I. [JH]