France does have first sale exhaustion, Germany to for similar reasons; if you author a book and sell it, you cannot tell the buyer what they can and cannot do

France does have first sale exhaustion, Germany to for similar reasons; if you author a book and sell it, you cannot tell the buyer what they can and cannot do with that book. The buyer can use it as toilet paper if they want. That's first sale doctrine, it doesn't touch your author's rights.