Sometimes Amazon will pop up a note saying that this item is available for sale in the US and Canada only. Similarly that is often in the front pages of books.
If you travelled as often as I have, you'd find books on the other side of security at Heathrow that are not for sale in the UK.
The publishers don't usually mind a small number of grey imports for places like SF book dealers at cons etc. but if the US got the Harry Potter books a month before the UK, WH Smith would not be selling the US versions and Amazon.com would probably not honour your purchase.
Some dealers ignore the restrictions and sell internationally anyway, but then it is them that are violating the terms of sale and them that are opening themselves up to a lawsuit.
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Sometimes Amazon will pop up a note saying that this item is available for sale in the US and Canada only. Similarly that is often in the front pages of books.
If you travelled as often as I have, you'd find books on the other side of security at Heathrow that are not for sale in the UK.
The publishers don't usually mind a small number of grey imports for places like SF book dealers at cons etc. but if the US got the Harry Potter books a month before the UK, WH Smith would not be selling the US versions and Amazon.com would probably not honour your purchase.
Some dealers ignore the restrictions and sell internationally anyway, but then it is them that are violating the terms of sale and them that are opening themselves up to a lawsuit.