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Isn't reselling of ebooks (with DRM control), effectively a case of limited time rental of ebooks? Effectively I'd be paying (say) £2 for the rental of an ebook, with a £10 deposit on it. I get the deposit back when I decide I no longer want the book.
This differs (I guess), in that it doesn't take in to account demand for the book. I.e. in second hand sales someone has to want the book I'm selling.
I think that with DRM support this would be fairly easy to do. For book sellers it actually gives a reasonable explanation for why they add DRM in the first place, too. Also, as noted, it would be technically easy to have a scheme where the merchant, publisher and author get a cut of the second hand book sale, which has to be a plus.
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