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The problem is that most ebook licenses prohibit a transfer of ownership unlike physical books where the original purchaser is allowed to do what they want after that first purchase.
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That's a contractual issue, though, and has nothing whatsoever to do with moral rights. Moral rights are, to quote Wikipedia:
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[The] rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions. They include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work. The preserving of the integrity of the work allows the author to object to alteration, distortion, or mutilation of the work that is "prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation". Anything else that may detract from the artist's relationship with the work even after it leaves the artist's possession or ownership may bring these moral rights into play. Moral rights are distinct from any economic rights tied to copyrights. Even if an artist has assigned his or her copyright rights to a work to a third party, he or she still maintains the moral rights to the work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights