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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
a simple license transfer feature by the store, content provider or publisher would be the best option to enable reselling of ebooks.
In it's simplest terms all that would need be done is for the person selling the book be given the ability to transfer ownership of the license to another account, within the same store/website. No sharing of accounts etc would be needed. I also would completely agree there should be a limit to the number of transfers per license should be part of the deal.
Publishers have zero motivation to add this ability because they have buffaloed the public to ignore that ebooks grant access to the much coveted used book buyers segment of the market. That is if the prices are competitive with used prices plus a small amount for the convenience of ebooks.
As it sits currently on the Kindle it is OK to resell your content with the reader to which it was downloaded or sent via Whispernet. At least that was the last time I read about it. Even then there was doubt it was OK unless the seller made sure to delete the titles from their account. But deleting them from an account means the titles are no longer tracked as the copies don't belong to any Amazon account.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon reversed their policy on that. Actually I'm not sure it was ever an official policy that it was okay. I did send Amazon an email for clarification about a year ago and received back a canned response saying that if I sold a Kindle all books should be removed from it.