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Authored by: tknarr on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 08:33 PM EDT

They have a monopoly on new copies, yes. But it's long-settled law in the US that they do not have a monopoly on sales. It's been upheld time and again, all the way to the Supreme Court, that if I bought a copy of a book I can sell it to a used-book store and they can sell it to someone and the copyright holder can't do a blessed thing about it as long as the used-book store isn't making additional copies.

And I'd point out that as a purchaser I don't buy from the publisher. I buy from the retailer. The retailer may have an agreement with the publisher about how they'll sell things, but that's simply Not My Problem as a purchaser. I can't be violating any agreement with the publisher because I never made any agreement with them (if they believe I did they're of course free to produce the written copy of said agreement with my signature on it).

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