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Idk, a video game seems very different from a book to me. With a game, you have hours and hours of play time invested, while with a book I can finish 400 pages in about two hours and be done with it.
I think that if you're opening up the possibility of reselling ebooks, you're looking at prices going up. Because why would anyone sell their book at any kind of reasonable price if someone's just going to turn around and resell it when they're done, leaving you with no profit? And there's tons of people that would see it as an opportunity to make money, because "you're only selling a copy. There's an infinite number of the book still there, so what's the problem?"
Giving an ebook away to someone else is still pretty shaky ground, because the author's not being compensated, but I would think a person-to-person transfer wouldn't be as big of a deal as spreading a book out across the Internet. You could get in trouble if you got busted for something else and they seized your computer and all digital devices, in which case illegal distribution of books could be seen as a sign of your character et al, which could give you more time in the pokey.
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