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Originally Posted by HarryT
...For the same reason that you can't re-sell a track that you download from iTunes; ...the fact that it would be a violation of copyright law. When you re-sell a paper book, you are selling the same book that you bought. If you were to re-sell an e-book you would, by definition, be making an unauthorised copy of it in the process, and that would be a copyright violation...
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This is true only if you keep a copy of the tune or e-book for yourself. If you have to crack DRM to do so, that would be probably be illegal (it's never been tested in court as far as I know) but wouldn't be an actual copyright violation. Of course, the question remains; do you actually own an e-book or only a license to use it (again untested in the courts afaik)?