Thread: Purchasing books from a different country - how easy?
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Old 12-22-2018, 07:03 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
This is totally incorrect. A book can be sold in whatever regions the contract between the author and the publisher says it can be sold in. The publisher may have world-wide publishing rights or it may have rights that are restricted to one or more specific countries. The publisher may have exclusive rights, or the author may be free to sell the book through other channels, too. These are not "unjust laws", but simply contractual obligations.
My understanding was incorrect. And I suppose if you're a lawyer you might consider the contractual obligations to be simple.

This site has an article by a lawyer who is an author. It doesn't seem simple to me.
https://www.mindyklasky.com/index.ph...torial-rights/

So, now I wonder why Amazon can sell a paperback and mail it to me in Mexico but they cannot sell me a specific ebook and send it to me in Mexico. Years ago when I asked if I could order books if I lived in Mexico, Amazon said I could not order from Amazon.com.
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