Why are Amazon and other vendors allowed to say &quot;buy&quot; an ebook or other digital asset when it is actually a license?
<p>Amazon offers you the opportunity to buy a Kindle book. But you are  clearly not buying, rather <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/48687/">licensing</a>, as they make quite clear.</p>
<p>This seems like false advertising; or alternately that a customer could demand to keep/own the item since that word was used.</p>
<p>Why are Amazon and other vendors able to do this without being stopped by lawsuits or legal enforcement?</p>

<h2>You can “buy” a licence</h2>
<p>Buy simply means exchanging money for goods or services. A licence is a service that can be bought.</p>

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