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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because with a CD you're making copies of the files; with a book you are not.
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But the copies were made in Europe, therefore legally.
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When you buy a digital file legally, you have an implicit licence to make copies as required for normal use of the product - eg, copying it in from the CD into the RAM of your computer in order to read it. With an illegally-acquired copy, no such implicit licence exists, hence the act of reading it will violate copyright law.
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Where is the illegality here? The book and the CD were legally acquired in Europe (bought, copied, whatever, because it's public-domain content in Europe). The book and the CD were legally imported into the US (I'm under the assumption that it's a single item, for personal use in principle). Is selling this in the US illegal then? Then selling the book should be as illegal as selling the CD.
PS. By the way, this has nothing to do with georestrictions.