this is getting ludicrous. i’ve whinged on before about the problems with ebooks including the fact that you are paying more for something you can do less with. you can’t, in most digital rights scenarios anyway, sell an ebook when you’re done with it. now i find that rather than combatting this problem authors would rather deal with the problem backwards by whinging about the sale of second hand books [free registration required to read the new york times].

i know that authors want to make money (believe me they make plenty out of me) but this is majorly wonky. there is a bigger picture than just royalties here.