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Originally Posted by asjogren
Does Customs get involved for internet purchases of (legal) Pornography subscriptions?
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Only cases I've heard of involved stuff that was legal in country A (where it was hosted) but not in country B (where the buyer lived), and that's a different question.
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Again, how does "traveling" eBook purchases via the Internet differ substantially from traveling paper book purchases?
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One word: convenience.
If I'm in the UK, and I want to buy a pbook from a US vendor (probably because nobody in the UK has bought the right to sell it there), it's inconvenient - shipping alone can double the price, and it's a hassle to find a vendor and arrange payment and shipping (especially in the pre-Internet days). This served as a natural limit on people buying books outside their 'proper' geographical area, so publishers never saw any reason to make an issue of it, even with the rise of online pbook stores like Amazon.
Nowadays, if I'm in the UK and I want to buy an ebook from a US vendor (because it's not available for sale in the UK, or the US edition is cheaper, or I can only find it in my preferred format, or whatever) it's just as convenient as shopping anywhere else - I click, I enter my payment details, I download. No 'natural' geographical restriction. End result, publishers send around Luca Brasi to enforce the status quo geographical model on ebook sellers.