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Originally Posted by twowheels
The problem is that ebooks ARE competing against used books. If we're stuck with DRM then we should at least get the right of first sale and be allowed to resell it via some online marketplace.
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Hence the prevalent anti-DRM stance.
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Originally Posted by twowheels
It seems that Amazon (and others) could easily allow us to put the book up for resale. I could finish reading the book, choose to resell it on their website. It'd go into a pool of available copies and become unavailable to me.
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You lost me at "pool of available copies", which seems to applying a physical paradigm to eBooks. (It works in a library context, but not in a digital vendor framework where there is no "pool" to speak of.)