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There is actually a lot of pirated textbooks. https://booksrun.com/page/on-counterfeit-textbooks https://booksrun.com/page/on-counterfeit-textbooks Internatio
by astura 8y ago
There is actually a lot of pirated textbooks.
https://booksrun.com/page/on-counterfeit-textbooks https://booksrun.com/page/on-counterfeit-textbooks
International editions aren't really a "problem" because they are legal, pirated books are not.
- wyldfire 8y agoThey probably are a problem because of market segmentation (this has been a sticking point in other industries, at least). But piracy represents a larger problem.
- walterbell 8y agoThe U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of book resale, regardless of publisher's market segmentation.
- astura 8y agoNo, they are not a problem, nor is this a grey area, they are 1000% legal to buy and sell in the United States. Even importing books for the sole purpose of resale is legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Sons,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So.... >Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519 (2013),[1] is a United States Supreme Court copyright decision in which the Court held, 6-3, that the first-sale doctrine applies to copies of copyrighted works lawfully made abroad.
- nkozyra 8y agoThere are lots but most of what abebooks has are international editions. You can buy some otherwise insanely expensive computer books for < $10 because they're Bangladesh editions.
- voltagex_ 8y agoYep: e.g. the hardback vs paperback versions of https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-systems-a-programmers-perspective_david-r-ohallaron_randal-e-bryant/247389/#isbn=0137133367&idiq=15560579 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-systems-a-programmers... - note the different ISBNs.