Funny thing is, I covered
a related matter—an organization that wants to change copyright law to force sellers of used books less than two years old to pay royalties—on TeleRead a couple of days before this article came out.
Every publishing industry really hates the second-hand market. Computer game manufacturers tack an EULA or non-transferable account on to try to kill that market; book publishers can't do anything like that—yet.
However, e-books, on the other hand…