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Originally Posted by HarryT
Apparently, legally speaking, when you buy a paper book from Amazon US, the sale is deemed to have taken place in the US, so Amazon are allowed to supply it, no matter where the customer lives. When you buy an eBook on the other hand, the sale is deemed to occur at the customer's location, so if it's an eBook that Amazon only has US distribution rights for, they aren't allowed to sell it.
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Interesting. Does it work the other way around, too? I mean, if I buy a treebook from Amazon UK, do they consider it to be a UK sale?
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Why this difference should exist, I don't know; but from what I've read, that is the reason the eBook stores have to impose geographical restrictions.
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Sigh. What is wrong with these people? Are we going to have to wait for them to die to get things running right?