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Originally Posted by murraypaul
At least as far as taxation goes, point of sale for eBooks is where the retailer resides, not the customer. That is why Amazon can charge only 3.5% VAT when selling to UK customers, where the VAT rate is 20%, by basing themselves in Luxemburg.
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But not in the US, where it is the home residence of the customer (and nothing to do with the retailer or the bank/credit card).
Outside of taxation, the laws pretty much uniformly (with some exceptions, I'm sure) put the point of sale of ebooks at the theoretical customer location.
As to the granting of publication rights by authors, other than various copyright law establishing that it resides with the author upon creation and can be disposed of as they wish, their contracts with publishers generally are not something subject to EU laws on what you can purchase.
Obviously, when price protection laws exist, they trump the right to purchase anything you want from anywhere you want (otherwise, they would not protect prices, at all). Also, you are 'protected' from purchasing various items not from the "authentic" region (which generally raises your prices, whether or not it assures quality). At least a pint of beer there is still a pint (and not as little as 10.5 oz, as here).