WRT your question about buying a book for half price that you can't resell it's been going on for a little while now with college textbooks. Case in point: my

WRT your question about buying a book for half price that you can't resell it's been going on for a little while now with college textbooks. Case in point: my accounting textbook (a new edition) comes in three versions: a $200 hardback book which can easily be resold at the end of the semester like any other book a $120 unbound version that is three hole punched (so you can put it in a binder) but that no bookstore will buy at the end of the year, making it hard to sell a $40 e-book that you can load from virtually any device (I believe that there is a iPad app even) but the e-book is impossible to resell thanks to the magic of DRM. Based on my experience in the class there is a about even spread among the three.