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Originally Posted by asjogren
Yes, but I think it is really difficult to to keep control AND give those rights. And these publishers seem to be heavily into control.
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It would be easy for them to "re-register" a given ebook, by removing your registration from it and transferring it to someone else. The transfer would have to be done by their servers (and would not "remove access" to that book on any device that wasn't connected--but as soon as that device tried to validate a new book, it'd connect to the server & lose the ability to read the transferred book).
Since that takes effort (miniscule, but effort), the DRM server company could charge a fee for it--perhaps a dollar to transfer ownership of the file. This would allow people to sell used ebooks for, say, $2-3, and make a small profit.
Publishers won't go for it. They want to lock people into 1 purchase=1 reader.