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I suspect that Sony aren't counting on the used ebook market to actually pan out but what they do want is to get into the market that's pretty much Adobe at the moment - i.e. sell your DRM service to multiple vendors and get a cut of every sale. That's a nice business to be in because once you've set it up it's almost free money.
The used ebook thing comes in because in designing the system from scratch they probably wanted to put in all the features that potential customers may want.
So I don't think you have Sony saying "we think used ebooks are the future" you have Sony saying "we have a shiny new DRM system and look at all the things it can do, including used ebooks if that's what you want".
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