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Any durable good will create it's own used market, whether you'e talking books or bricks.
In non-I.P monopoly markets, the use vs. new market is decided based on cost, availability, and remaining durability. Nobody complains.
In the I.P. monopoly markets, there is an extra value placed on the product, exclusive of the physical product itself. That value gets stripped off in the the used markets for such products, reducing the value to the typical non-I.P. monopoly market values. That makes them a more serious competitor to the new product, due to the inherent pricing advantage of stripping off the I.P. value. The people reaping this extra value, complain a lot....
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