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On this forum, many people seem to re-read books (see the poll in my sig line), but I'm told that most people don't. My mom is a good example. She reads books once, then gives them away. Since she wouldn't read the book again in any case, does it matter that she still has a copy?
Ok, I suppose it does matter, because she could forget that she gave it to me, let's say, and give it again to my brother or a friend. But if Amazon wanted to, they could make it very easy to "send" an e-copy of a book to someone else with an Amazon account, which function would mark the book as "removed" and might even actually remove it from the Kindle (and associated account) after receipt confirmation. This could be done without any DRM.
If you start from the premise that most of your customers are honest, there are many ways to make managing digital content easier, including helping your customers stay on the right side of copyright law, without introducing the system fragility that DRM imposes.
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