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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I've never resold a book in my life, but I do one of the above to almost every ebook I own.
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I can't quite say the same.
Ages ago, I used to "trade" at a local used bookstore 2 for 1 all my scifi/pulp novels. I also sold a few of my textbooks. Other than that, I've never sold any either. I have given them, loaned them or traded them to my family/friends, though. I don't really even want the right to sell them, but I want back the right to share/give what I've purchased.
We used to have an informal group that met every weekend for something unrelated to books. Each person threw a book or two into a shopping bag when they'd finished reading it. The bag got passed around each weekend. The person with the bag would comment about what they'd liked when they handed it to someone else. People would take what they wanted and return what they'd read, with their name marked inside. Eventually, when a book got old, or most names had been marked, the owner would take it back out. There were always more books going in than would fit in the bag. There's no legal way to do that with ebooks, and I miss the sharing.
I once saw a software "license" that was really simple and said it was to be treated like a book - if I sold it or gave it away, I couldn't continue to use it. Oddly, I've never seen anything similar for an ebook.
I wonder if there are any sellers that treat the ownership of ebooks like paper books and sell the copy you buy, not "license" it.