If the seller provided me a hardcopy of the books I bought I would buy a Kindle today. However, as long as it is totally digital with no hardcopy, I will never buy one. I want to be able to resell my property, and I have yet to see a legal way to do that with a Kindle.
I see your point, and I agree.
There should be a way provided to transfer (not copy) a title to another Kindle.
The First-Sale Doctrine should be rigorously upheld!
I agree. It would be nice to be able to pass a book along to somebody else's Kindle. You can with other sorts of files on the Kindle, just not their books.
But I recognize too that this is part of the discount you get when you buy a book this way. A $25 or $30 new hardbound book is only about $10 on the Kindle. Part of what you give up for that discount is the ability to re-sell it to somebody else.
That said, you can of course sell the Kindle, contents and all. So not *all* of your transferability is lost. So, there's that. :-)