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Originally Posted by Mike L
Selling an individual copy is not the same as publishing it. The book has already been published at that point.
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Yes indeed, but I suspect it is rather more complicated than that otherwise someone could... Buy the publishing rights for a book in India. Print 10,000 copies in India, all with the Indian publishing, edition, and copyright details printed in them. Ship the 10,000 books to the UK. Market them in the UK for one third of the UK recommended retail price, but sell them on a website physically located in India. The book would be published and printed in India, the point of sale would also be in India, but the book would arrive quickly because they've already been shipped to the UK.
I can't see us getting any further without input from a publishing industry lawyer.
Anyway I'm not worried by the cost of books, nor do I wish to get cheaper books by buying from abroad (the end of my previous post was purely a joke). The only reason I started this thread was because I wanted to read some ebooks which weren't available in the UK and I won't be buying from abroad again except for that reason.