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Originally Posted by bill the smith
@HarryT
You say the matter is governed by the law of contract between the distributor and the retailer.
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Correct.
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In that event, none of us have a problem because a contract can only bind the parties too it and certainly purchasers are not so.
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Absolutely. It's a contract between the publisher and the retailer. It has nothing whatseover to do with the customer.
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The burden of upholding the "geographical" aspects of the contract would be on the distrbutor who should have a foolproof system which cannot be circumvented.
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Absolutely. It surely hasn't escaped your attention that retailers really don't try terribly hard to enforce geographical restrictions. The publishers insist that they make some token effort at doing so, but obviously the retailer wants to sell books to as many people as possible.
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If you are correct, then it follows that geographical restrictions do not apply to us, the consumers.
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If you mean that the customer isn't doing anything wrong in bypassing them, that is absolutely right.