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Originally Posted by Bald Eagle
You can buy paper books from everywhere without problems despite geographical restrictions because the sale takes place at the site of the shop (which obviously is in an allowed region).
This is not true for ebooks where the point of sale is your place, even if the logic of that ruling quite escapes me.
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There's another issue that is linked to this one, too. Here in Europe, e-books have been declared "data files" rather than "publications" - which apparently is what defines the point of sale (i.e. location of the buyer, not the seller) and subjects them to full-rate VAT rather than the reduced rate normally accorded to published material.