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There is nothing wrong ethically/morally with buying/selling used books than any other tangible good: car, stereo, house, etc.
As to the the throwaway question, not sure how it relates. It's a more gray area, and there may be local law that covers it. Ethically, if someone intentionally throws something away, I have the right to recover/salvage it and do with it pretty much as a please. In the example, I could sell the copy I find; what I couldn't do is take that copy, print more copies based on it, and sell those.
Both questions seem more pointed toward begging the questions and opening the old & worn-out debate over the ownership of e-books and why they can't be sold "used" like a DTB can. Not gonna go there.
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