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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The purchase which can only be completed with a lie is the immoral one in my opinion. Ordering a physical book from a UK store to be shipped to your real address is neither immoral, nor does it run afoul of any geo-restrictions.
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Minor nit 1: Very often the rights to a book apply in a limited area. For instance, Raincoast Books obtained the rights to the Harry Potter books in Canada. Knowingly selling a copy to a person in the USA where the rights were purchased by another company would have violated their agreement with Bloomsbury. OTOH, anyone selling an edition published by another company to a customer in Canada would also have violated that agreement.
Minor nit 2: The specific book I was looking at was not available in North America at that time. When I looked at the information for the book on the UK bookstore's website, I saw a cannot be shipped to your address warning. When I asked why, their response was that the book could only be shipped to Europe with no further explanation.
My daughter's work-around was to have a fellow Leicester Tigers fan/online friend purchase the book and ship it to her. As a sidenote, when she attended the Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 in Ireland, she finally met some of those on-line friends/rugby fans in person.