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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
To fix the geographic distribution idiocy, we just need a ruling that says "the store is selling from its location, and is bound by laws addressing that location, regardless of where the buyer is sitting at time of purchase."
Except it isn't a tax issue--it's who gets the money for the book on the publisher's part. The UK publisher wants to sell from its location to whatever location rights it bought. The American publisher of the same book doesn't want you to buy it from the UK if you live in the US because THEY have the right to sell it to you. The author is compensated either way, but the publisher is not--often a publisher on the US will sell rights to a completely different company elsewhere--thus if that company doesn't get the sale, they paid for rights they are unable to benefit from.
Then there are snits all over the place.
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