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I think the first-sale doctrine might make that sticker a mere suggestion.

• _delirium 16y ago
  If the copy was acquired through some private, contracted method the first-sale doctrine might not apply. For example, if you're given a private review copy of a book under a no-sale contract that you agree to, that's enforceable, at least in theory, and the first-sale doctrine doesn't apply. However it's pretty hard to police, and almost all the policing effort that anybody does expend is pre-release, to try to track down people trying to sell review copies on eBay before the street date; nobody spends much effort tracking down people who then sold those review copies 5 years later.