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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Selling a book doesn't violate copyright. US, and other countries, have laws related to the first sale doctrine.
The problem with ebooks though, is you cannot transfer rights properly. Blame it mostly on DRM. There is no way to shift a ebook from one account to another, with any of the known DRM systems.
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Blame it also on a lack of legal clarity on whether we even own anything to be transferred. I can buy a Season Pass to Six Flags, but I can't sell it back and forth with my neighbor so we can both take advantage of it.
So the question remains, when you purchase an ebook, did you buy a copy of the book, or did you buy a "Season Pass" to read the book?