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Originally Posted by taustin
Mail order is a different animal entirely, and far more complicated. Publishers, for instance, would actually be prohibited from selling you a book directly outside the area they have distribution rights to. But you don't buy from the publisher directly.
Same is true of buying an ebook from Amazon, but in the case of a paper book, you're talking about a physical product, for which there is a couple of centuries of case law regarding the first sale doctrine. Once the wholesaler owns a copy of a physical object, the publisher has very little control over what they can do with it by law, and contracts can't modify that. Extensive case law.
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I'm afraid there's a mistake here. When a company is selling a physical good, the place to define if they have right to sell it to you is ITS localization, so it doesn't depend on the buyer. However, when they sell a service (ebooks are services), the place to define if they have right to sell to you is YOUR address. So, they don't have to do anything, law is different in both cases.