It will be free of one legal encumbrance as it pursues its seemingly limitless spread of ventures.
And the explanation that customers are, in effect, merely "renting" their e-books is buried in long, jargon-filled license agreements that almost nobody reads.Why are e-book buyers faced with this encumbrance?
The posh ones, namely Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, are in one sense the most old-fashioned kind of Tories: men interested above all in power, and aware that ideology can be an encumbrance in its pursuit.
Overpriced homes are like the extravagant plumage of a peacock, an eye-catching encumbrance that only the most resourceful males can put on display.The burden of home-buying thus falls heavily on unmarried men.
For unsecured creditors such as bondholders, the concern is a problem known as "encumbrance".
In the last two wars (the Arabian gulf and Kosovo), Europe proved to be more of an encumbrance than an ally.
But many think that the issue of human rights is at best a distraction and at worst an encumbrance to the traditional jobs of diplomacy promoting your country's interests and safeguarding its security.Critics of those who want western policymakers to encourage human rights abroad often see the debate as a modern obsession even aberration that dates back to Jimmy Carter.
The proliferation of patents might prove a serious encumbrance to businesses, just as travellers along the Rhine in medieval Europe were slowed down by having to pay a toll at every castle.James Boyle, a legal scholar at Duke Law School in North Carolina, claims that the current increase in intellectual-property rights represents nothing less than a second "enclosure movement".
Although, for much of his premiership, Mr Brown seemed to regard it as an encumbrance he reluctantly inherited from his gung-ho predecessor, he has recently made a better fist of explaining Britain's bloody deployment in Helmand.
America would free itself of the encumbrance of formal alliances and multilateral diplomacy.
Every creation, transfer, encumbrance, or cancellation of a right in immovable property requires, in addition to the agreement of the parties, registration with the district court.
