Thread: Kindle International Edition: second thoughts
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Old 10-08-2009, 04:46 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's a legal technicality. When you buy a print book, the "point of sale" is deemed to be the bookstore. When you buy an eBook, the point of sale is the customer's PC. Hence, if the customer is in a country for which the US publisher does not have distribution rights, they can buy the print book (because that's legally being sold "in the USA"), but they can't buy the eBook.
I wonder... is it really so? Will US Kindle owners with an international edition be able to buy US-restricted ebooks when travelling abroad?
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