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Originally Posted by Piper_
Yes, that is the issue.
The problem all stems from a (crazy, imo) law that says the point of sale for a digital book is at the customer's computer.
The point of sale for a paper book is the store itself.
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But the reason for it seems pretty rational. For physical items you have to pay postage and taxes and custom. So you will always try to buy locally if possible. For ebooks there can be no added taxes and taxes and there is no postage. So it is impossible to have a differentiated market that we have for physical items if it worked the same for ebooks and ordinary books.