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Originally Posted by HarryT
What matters are the sales conditions of the site where you originally bought the book. If those sales conditions say "you can't resell it" then you can't resell it.
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I do not think that's quite correct. Personally I do no think that any e-book (or e-music whether from iTunes or not) can be resold in a
public transaction.
That is the nature of the medium and until a commercial secondary market in e-books or e-music appears that's how it is. If I have a paper book or cd, I can list it for sale on Amazon, Ebay or whenever without worrying about anything. With anything e, whatever you believe, you cannot list it anywhere publicly to sell. Sure there are dodgy sites and Ebay sometimes accepts dodgy listings, but try and make a business out of this and see what happens, while lots of people make a living by selling used books, cd's and the like on Amazon, Ebay, Abe and similar places...
The rest is just quibbling of "how many angels on the head of the pin" type. When there will be a public market I can go with my already bought e-content and resell it I would reconsider.
This being said, I do not understand why this is such a big deal. Most used books unless collectibles have negligible value in the market anyway, and there cannot be such a thing as a used e-book by definition. What you would do to make it used, extract a bunch of electrons from the 50'th line?
Personally I could not care less that I cannot resell my ebooks, and about sharing I have no qualms to do it with family and no reason to do it with strangers or publicly; what I care about is the ability to read that ebook whenever I wanted and on whatever device I want, and that I can be sure that with minimal care from my part this will be true indefinitely in the future.