Doctorow on Amazon's "Sale" of Kindle Books

Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing expressed some late night frustration with Amazon early this morning. He doesn’t like the language Amazon uses in the fine print that refers to sales of Kindle books.

Here’s what he says: “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.”

But,

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