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Originally Posted by crich70
Actually I would think that it could be argued that Amazon isn't physically selling the book on Australian soil if you think about it. The book was put up for sale in cyberspace which technically has no national boundaries applied to it as it doesn't exist within the material world. The end user however does so he/she would be responsible for the media crossing over into the national boarders of Australia. The book itself would still be immaterial in nature (being a kindle file) but it would be stored in a physical location (the hard drive of the computer it was downloaded to or the memory of the Kindle device). The net is everywhere and yet no where, but the hard drive of a single computer, or the memory of a Kindle device has a physical existence. That's how it works with Geographical restrictions as well isn't it? A person can see a book they want to buy and things look good for downloading it, but then the internet gateway (or something) picks up the info. that the end user's computer or Kindle is in a part of the world where book X can't currently be sold.
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an eBook purchase is considered made where the person buying the eBook is at the time of purchase. So anyone in Australia buying that eBook would be buying it in Australia. Doesn't matter that it's held in a server in the USA. It just matters where the buyer is at the time of purchase.