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Originally Posted by BooksForABuck
The first sale doctrine exists specifically because with paper books, the content and the media cannot be separated. Although you don't own the content, you own the package (the paper) and can sell the paper should you wish, assuming you've bought it legally in the first place. The logic of this doctrine does not apply to eBooks which are separate from the media on which they're displayed.
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I dunno, the argument can be made that the file format you buy is the "package" since it is a tangable thing. To read a mobi book you must have the right reader.
For me the real issue is that digital media is easily duplicated where as the physical book is not so. I suspect if a technologgy existed where people could replicate paper books just as easily this law would be revisited