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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by smnrchrds on Sunday June 01, 2014 @01:42AM (#7828282)
> ... with a big warning not to sell outside those areas stamped on it

Can they legally do that? I mean, it seems to be against the first-sale doctrine to limit what retailers or subsequent buyers of the book can do with it.

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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by pling on Sunday June 01, 2014 @04:04AM (#7828508)
I think it's mainly aimed at distributors who decide to sell affordable edition copies to the wrong markets. You can sell it quite happily second-hand.

I've seen in many books here in the UK, in the front covers usually, a minimum sale price and a demand that all future sales are credited to the publisher.

They can shove it of course :)

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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by DanBC on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:40AM (#7829101)
Tesco vs Levi is a useful case when talking about grey market imports:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm

Supposed consumer protection laws often feel to be anti-consumer.

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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by Turing_Machine on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:03AM (#7829008)
Varies by country, I think. In the U.S. this restriction was recently slapped down by the Supreme Court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....

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