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Originally Posted by _Ea_
Thanks both. I was certain the laws of other countries would not supercede ours, but it never hurts to ask 
And then I also wondered about any international agreements. |
There may be one further point to consider. If you are discussing fiction, this may not apply, but with certain non-fiction, particularly books about technology such as encryption, there may be import or export issues with you buying the book in one country for use in another country, or taking the book to another country. The issue comes up more often with software, but books could be an issue, depending on the country.
In your specific example, a book should be pretty safe to export, as US freedom of speech protections make it allowable to export a book about technology, even if you could not export the software or hardware incorporating the same technology. The creator of the PGP encryption software ran into this, as a matter of fact, and at one point the source code was published as a paper book to get around those restrictions (
http://www.mit.edu/~prz/EN/essays/BookPreface.html).
Other countries may have restrictions on technology imported, and I do not know if a paper book would get around the laws in those countries.
The Bandit