What’s their standing?
Edit: FYI in the United States we have a legal precedent called the first sale doctrine. Once you buy a book it is yours and you have the right to do what you want with it including selling it. And while they probably never anticipated a bunch of super wealthy narscisists buying a bunch of books so they could hoard the knowledge and then destroy them, we have no laws here that could prevent it.
What’s their standing?
Edit: FYI in the united states we have a level precedent called the first sale doctrine. Once you buy a book it is yours and you have the right to do what you want with it including selling it. And while they probably never anticipated a bunch of super wealth narscisists buying a bunch of books so they could hoard the knowledge and then destroy them, we have no laws here that could prevent it.
What’s their standing?