Dan Gillmor on Nostr: When you "buy" a book on Kindle, you own only the right to read it as long as you ...

When you "buy" a book on Kindle, you own only the right to read it as long as you have an Amazon account. When your public library lends you an ebook, it isn't lending something it owns in the first place, but is actually sub-leasing.

Read: "The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy" for some very, very bad news about your -- and your library's -- rights in the digital age. https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/