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The act of selling ebooks is a service, the books themselves whether it is a paper or digital version is a good.
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You purchased the paper good; the digital good you manufactured on a medium you purchased elsewhere (or at least separately). The service provided you with the information required to do it, gave you limited rights regarding doing it again, and provides continued access to that service should you require it in the future.
When you buy an ebook you are not really buying a book. You're buying the means to make one, and the limited rights to do so. Don't like the terms? Don't agree with the value? Don't pay for it, or make one without paying for those rights by getting the information from someone who violates those terms (and possibly laws). Your call. I won't judge.
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Any digital good that is not locked with DRM DOES fall within First Sale doctrine. There was a lawsuit from 2007-08 about CDs (which is also digital media on a physical medium) being sold second hand and the company UMG did not like it.
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Physical medium created by the original manufacturer. Not a copy. The only way to get an ebook is to make your own copy (via the service which includes that limited right), and the only reasonable way to give it to someone else is to make another and distribute it.