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Because of typical DRM you can't buy a used copy of any given e-book. So that comparison fails. The rest of your argument is a reasonable free market commentary. However, while e-books may be a free market item (and I might debate that now), as Borders closes while Amazon and iTunes ascend, they are not likely to remain a free market item.
They are, or will be, sole source items. Buy from vendor "A" or you will never get that e-book. They may drop their price over time or they may not. You may argue I don't have to read that particular book. True. But that is not an argument that supports a high e-book price. Look at it this way, if the price is really too high then piracy will increase. So there is such as thing as "too high" in that regard.
In the far future, but within our lifetimes, I expect e-books to dominate sales. So used p-books may not be as much an option then.
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