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In our country they use social DRM,they now started at court with a new idea "epub is software, and you are entitled to sell the software and licence,when you destroy your own copy."
There is a new bookshop,you can buy your epub and it is placed on your "digital bookshelf" after reading it, you have to destroy your own copy (no one can verify you do) and you can place your book on the market of the bookshop as second hand.
If anyone buys it, the watermark is removed and replaced by a fresh one,and then is removed from your bookshelf.
So by example, I buy a book for €10 and after finishing I can sell it for a price that I can define myself.
When it is sold, I can't no longer access the copy, and 1,50 commission is transferred to the bookshop.
When I look for a title, I can see the new one, and the "second hand one".
The publishers are still looking for a way to forbid it,but until now it is legal.
You can only sell the books,you buyed from that bookshop.
So I buy the new title for €10,- after finish reading it, i can sell it by example for €6,50
Minus 1,50 commission I get €5 for the book, so paid €5,- in total.
The new owner again can sell it in the same bookshop,and again pays the 1,50 commission.
I don't think it is allowed by this forum to give the name of the bookshop.
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