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Dear Amazon: Convert My Dead-Tree Library to Kindle Books

1 pointsby elidouradoover 12 years ago

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lutuspover 12 years ago
&#62; <i>Convert My Dead-Tree Library to Kindle Books</i><p>This won't work. Someone might argue that we have the right to turn our printed books into computer media, but as Google is finding out, this is only true under very particular circumstances.<p>If we could do this at home with a scanner and OCR software, that would be one thing. But it can't be a walk-in business model -- there are too many thorny legal issues. Someone might convert a book he doesn't "own" in a copyright sense, and promptly try to sell it <i>en masse</i>, after which the storefront book conversion business would be shuttered by legal action.