I've just had cause to go to the O'Reilly site (to get an update to an ebook I bought) and noticed they say this in the help section:
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Can I lend an O'Reilly ebook to another person?
If you buy an O'Reilly ebook from oreilly.com, you may lend it to another person, provided that you do not retain any copies of the book after you lend it. This is the same as the situation when you lend a used print copy—when you lend the copy, you deliver it to the buyer and no longer have a copy in your library. If you have bought a hard copy/ebook bundle, you may of course retain the hard copy, if you sell the ebook.
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Interesting, both for the permission to lend an ebook as long as you delete your local copy (and I'm sure they're aware you can still download it again from O'Reilly), and for the fact that they think you can sell an ebook you bought from them. I guess this makes them encouragers of piracy...
Andrew