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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Indeed. The current status quo is by no means a given. Why am I allowed to buy physical books and re-export them (all on the up and up, sellers will ship them to me), but not ebooks? It really wouldn't take all that much to change that.
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The motivation for it is simple. There is no additional cost for shipping an electronic copy and there is no way to add custom to an electronic copy. That is most likely the motivation for having different rules.