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The issue isn't so much DRM as it is the type of DRM being used. If everyone used the same DRM scheme, you'd be able to transfer your files between devices. It could even potentially work between different types of devices.
It's also not true, strictly speaking, that you can't resell e-books. I had given my mother my old Kindle 1, and she recently gave it back to me (because she got the Kindle 3). Even though it's de-registered, there are still some of her books on it, including A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, which is a $13 book, and not marked in the Amazon tags as being DRM-free. Now, I'm not sure why that works. It might be because the books are on the SD card, and not on the device's main memory. Still, if I were to sell this Kindle (which I will be doing today), then the next person to get it could read the book, and I could include it in my description as an additional feature, increasing the resale value of the Kindle. Doesn't that count as reselling the book?
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