E-Book Owners are Really Lisencees

   The terms of service of e-book sellers specify that you're only licensing a book, not buying it.  Some limitations of digital rights management (DRM), which comes under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) seem sensible to protect the consumers that are buying e-books.  Some issues are digital booksellers power to delete entire books from devices.  And, another, is the fact that most e-books are tied to the sellers reading device, or applets permanently.  What needs to be addressed by the DMCA are the facts that typically the e-book sellers can cancel an account at will, they might go out of business, change ownership, or begin charging to store your purchased contents on their computer servers.  See also, www.wired.com.