I’ve been able to buy a book, read it, then sell it to pay for the next one... well, forever. Why is this a problem?
In the long run, the problem may be less books to read because less people will write them.
It is of course possible to look at this only from one side, but that approach - from either side - is not sustainable.
For example, every time a game is resold, the developer gets 10% of the resale value.