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Originally Posted by Mivo
In theory, the same should apply to e-books. Plenty of people would not re-sell their e-books, but just knowing that they could, if they so choose, might go a long way when it comes to buying vs. pirating. The trouble is that it isn't easy to implement, though, since the vendors would need to transfer the licenses, and there's more than one company that sells e-books, and they can be read on any device without any kind of authorization process. Possibly having to trade in a lot of freedom for the ability to re-sell e-books may not be desirable.
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Considering the topic of the thread, this kind of transfer of licenses would also make watermarking useless. If the book license was sold how do you know if the uploader was the one who initially bought it, or the next person?