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Re:It's now Illegal to sell adult ebooks before 10 PM in Ger... by bayesianhorse on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:11PM (#9753912)
That may be harder to achieve than you might think. Big sellers would have lots of employees inside Germany and smaller sellers may be reluctant to setup a multi-national business...
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Re:It's now Illegal to sell adult ebooks before 10 PM in Ger... by Zak on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:21PM (#9753938)
Assuming we're talking about German language content, it's likely small sellers would exist in Austria and Switzerland servicing that market. Furthermore, it wouldn't be terribly difficult for someone small to medium sized who doesn't specialize in German language content to include such content in a larger library.

All of this is absurd in an age where anyone can just type "hardcore porn" or any of myriad more specific requests in to google.

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Re:It's now Illegal to sell adult ebooks before 10 PM in Ger... by user_666 on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:41PM (#9754009)
Yep. Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and Google (55% of the ebook market) all have operations in Germany. They cannot pull out, and nor can the local sellers that account for 40% of the ebook market.
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