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Originally Posted by elcreative
Technically, it is against the publishers' contracts to sell a book out of their agreed geo area but practically being near unenforceable and almost completely ignored... unfortunately for eBooks, it is relatively straightforward to trace buying point and block automatically...
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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, the people I know that run bookshops in Sweden have not mentioned that it should be problematic or against the rules to buy the books they are selling. I will double check the next time I meet them.
So you have run a bookshop outside US and UK?
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I've put my original quote so that you can read it again... there are two different things here, one is what is contractually legal and the other is about enforceability as I said i.e. just because it's against the rules doesn't make it difficult to do. When I worked for and later ran a specialist bookshop (in the UK, not that that makes any difference), UK publishers often knew we handled US stock but didn't bother being heavy about enforcement because we handled relatively small quantities and their reps also used to use our sales as guidlines as to what to acquire for UK printing but if we'd started importing large quantities and selling wholesale to other shops then they'd have jumped all over us...
Enforcement, ease of obtaining stock and so on practically have strong dependencies on quantities involved... in the case of English language books into non-English markets, the quantities mostly aren't worthwhile for publishers to wholesale officially and they probably don't have non-English area rights but will usually ignore someone buying small quantities from wholesalers.