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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Of course the morally corrupt can only sell the CD once, used ebooks can be sold ad infinitum.
Unless some kind of online database of all books sold and current ownership is produced (Or you get a physical owner tag of some kind like with a CD) there is nothing to stop 1 person buying an ebook then undercutting the publisher and selling the used ebook a few hundred thousand times.
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I understand this store will only permit the sales of digitally watermarked books, presumably for that very reason - ie so that each book bought can only be sold once.