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Originally Posted by shalym
Yes. An author is allowed to stop offering their book for sale. What they are NOT allowed to do is say "I will sell my book to this person, but not to THAT person".
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Yes.
Nor are they allowed to say "You may not buy this any more." Any copies already out there can be resold. That doesn't mean you can make another copy and sell it. This is why used book stores can still sell books even after they are no longer being printed.
The whole ebooks are a license and not a book messes with this, but there is no requirement that the law interpret it that way. Congress can say a book is a book is a book and ebooks become just another book that can be resold. I don't think it's likely, but there's nothing in the law that stops it. The current law hasn't been well tested yet either.
Greg