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Originally Posted by Mike L
It is certainly a benefit to both the seller and the buyer. The problem is that it would seriously degrade the overall e-book market. There would be no incentive for people to buy new e-books if they can buy them second-hand (at a presumably lower price). So authors and publishers would suffer, and that might discourage them from producing e-books in marginal cases. In the long run, that would be bad for us all.
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As if the used hardback (and paperback) book market has killed the new hardback (and paperback) book market. It comes down to -- are you actually buying the eBook, or are you merely borrowing it? If you've bought it, you should be able to sell it or donate it to the library.
At least that's the way I see it. If the publishers want to sell eBooks at near the price of paper books, the buyers should have the right to sell them.