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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Good thing DRM removes the right of first sale. 
Anybody think that's a coincidence? |
Of course not. That's the publishers trying to protect their interests, in the same way that other digital media producers (music, movies) are acting to protect theirs. Hard to blame them, even if in practice it's a pretty ham-handed way of doing it.
Yes, if we adopt e-books wholeheartedly, the used book industry will be hit a heavy blow... UNLESS someone comes up with a way to tie e-book content to a non-reproducible code or physical media, allowing it to be physically traded without leaving copies behind.
But think about this: Publishers (or, at least, the article's author) say used bookstores are killing them; and used bookstores say that e-books will kill them. Who's zoomin' who?