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Originally Posted by Leaping Gnome
I'm pretty sure they can't limit your resale abilities. Just because it is electronic does not mean they can overturn the right of first sale, althought it is legally murky as the linked wikipedia article shows. |
My personal opinion is that any e-content is licensed not owned, whether drm'ed or not and no legal secondary market is going to evolve. As an individual you most probably can try and sell your e-content but it's going to be on dodgy sites or at best for drm content and with content onwer permission you may be able to transfer your license, not like now when you can list your used book or cd on Amazon for example legally and freely.
I can live with that as long as prices are reasonable and I can be sure that I will be able to read my e-books indefinitely on any device I want (with some care from my part of course not to lose the file), ...
Usually the resale value of most books is negligible anyway.