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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Good thing DRM removes the right of first sale. 
Anybody think that's a coincidence? |
I do not think that drm has anything to do with reselling e-books - anyone tried to resell Baen ebooks?
E-books as electronic content are generally assumed to be not resalable and drm would be the only way to actually allow resales as "license transfer", though I doubt publishers would do that.
However as long as I get inexpensive drm-free/convertible ebooks that I can share freely with family and close friends, the way I do regular print books now, I am willing to give up the right of reselling them.
Regarding the impact of ebooks on used books - I disagree with the above assertion that ebooks will kill of the used book market; if the new print book market is there, so it will the used book market - only if ebooks *displace* print books in general, the used book market will get hit, but then all publishing would change considerably.