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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If the scanning company simply sent the paper copy (or the cover) back to the publisher, the way bookstores do now, the reselling problem should be resolved. But they would still have to deal with the possibility of reselling digital copies, so they may have to jump through some legal hoops to satisfy the publishers that they were not, or were paying royalties on any digital books resold to other than the original party.
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Problem is, the copyright holder on some older books is obscure or impossible to figure out (publisher out of business, author deceased, etc.) So there would be nowhere to send the scanned books to. (In my opinion, a copyright holder who can't be troubled to register their interest in an IP should lose the rights to that IP, but that's yet another argument.)
I agree with you about the cassette tape analogy, I just thought the used book analogy might resonate more with publishers. I'll write more about this in another thread.