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Originally Posted by Panurge
Followup: from my copy of the Penguin-Pelican paperback edition of Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, 1970 (copyright page):
"This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher."
Of course, the operative language here is "binding or cover," but I think you get the point. This is nothing new.
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I think this is a different issue, related to to the practice of "stripping" unsold books and returning the covers to publishers for credit. I don't think this reads as a prohibition against loaning or re-sale.
If the Kindle really catches on (and Amazon doesn't provide a book resale/swap service), there will probably be a court challenge regarding the "doctrine of first sale" and its applicability to ebooks. (Where's that popcorn icon again? Oh yeah:
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