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Originally Posted by Soldim
An attempt by two organizations defending publishers interests to forbid the resale of ebooks by a specific website has been dismissed by a Dutch judge yesterday ( link, in Dutch).
The just uses the precedents from the UsedSoft case to argue that the resale of ebooks can at this point not be prohibited. |
I see a number of potentially serious issues with this:
1. A used ebook market would destroy the "new" market, because there's no degradation of digital products, unlike physical ones. Many people would prefer to buy new paperbooks to used; there would be no reason to prefer a new ebook to a used one: the two would be indistinguishable.
2. How could it be ensured that the seller had deleted the book? What would be to stop someone buying an ebook, selling it, but keeping a copy for themselves?
3. DRM. DRM is not transferable. There's no mechanism for transferring either an ePub or a Kindle book from one owner to another.