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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's much more down to the fact that, whereas with a pBook, you have to consciously make a copy of it if you wish to have one (eg by scanning it or photocopying it), with an eBook multiple copies automatically exist as a part of the normal mechanism of use, and the typical computer user probably doesn't have the knowledge to eradicate all those copies.
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You don't think the typical computer user knows how to delete a file?
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How much would the law actually require you to do in terms of "deleting" your book if you wanted to give it someone else or sell it? Flush your web cache? Physically destroy any backup DVDs you may have made? Use a secure deletion tool to overwrite it on the physical disk? I don't know the answer to those questions - do you?
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If you have backups, then yes, either get rid of them or give them to the buyer. How many people do you know that actually burn DVD backups of their eBooks? Obviously not your "typical computer user". You don't need a "secure deletion tool" in order to delete a file. Is it theoretically possible to use computer forensic techniques to restore files that have been deleted in the OS but not physically overwritten... probably. Just don't restore them.
As I said, you obviously are trying to create ways that it would be possible to violate copyright. None of this is relevant to the discussion of whether it's legal/possible to sell eBooks. Giving someone a file without keeping a copy for yourself is really not that difficult.