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What I find amusing is the very mechanism that would allow passing on ebooks as an inheritance is DRM. An unencumbered digital file is infinitely copyable. One need not "will" it to heirs as anyone with access to Dearly Departed's computer can just make copies for everybody. Or load them online for the whole world.
The mechanism that would enable a digital file to act like a physical book that can only exist in one place in time...is DRM. With appropriate DRM the book you buy could truly be "your" book. If you give it away, DRM would allow the publisher the security that it was no different than giving a physical book. You couldn't give someone a copy while keeping your own file. You couldn't give the same book to everybody.
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