Quote from shortie:
and the fact that it was shipped to US means what?...
Quote from byteme:
Nothing.
"There are no penalties for students who import books for their own use, under a 1998 Supreme Court decision that ruled that manufacturers who sell goods more cheaply overseas than in the United States have no protection against having their products sold back to the American market."
Relevant article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/education/29textbooks.html?_r=1
Quote from shortie:
but in the case with amazon what they are doing is illegal:
"But businesses or individuals who buy books for resale outside India could face prosecution for copyright infringement."
Quote from TradeMetal:
How much would Amazon take as a profit on such a deal ?
I always wondered how much profit they make on selling a second hand book for 1$ or so.
Quote from wilburbear:
Good luck to brick and mortar book stores.
This is a further problem for commercial real estate, and the tens of thousands of physical book stores.
And we haven't even started to talk about the Kindle - and over a million FREE books that have gone off copyright (I'm gonna get Ben Franklin's autobiography on the new Kindle - listed price = $0.00).
Going to the bookstore is both harder AND more expensive.