NEW JERUSALEM BIBLE - THIS NEEDS A BIG PUSH!!!

Mike Binks said:

That would be fine - I only need one copy  

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Mike Binks said:

I don't seem to have a problem getting the paperback $21.95 into my shopping cart on Amazon.com

The copyright laws and international treaties about trading goods work different for various products (and in some cases, like region-codes for DVDs, the publishers even build artificial restrictions), however I seem to remember a lawsuit from some years back where it was made illegal to import science textbooks to the US that were printed in Asia - containing the same content as those sold for higher prices in the US by some of the major publishers.

So it could well be that some such things work even in the paper world only on a small scale, and only in the buy-more-expensive-abroad direction. Not sure if it would be possible to e.g. swamp the US or European book market with cheap CS Lewis prints from Canada (where his works fell into the PD). 

Mike Binks said:

As a discriminated against non-american I hope this doesn't take off until it is opened to the international market.

I'm not sure this will ever be the case (Faithlife would need to secure copyrights with at least two rights-holders and carry two different products, like they do with the CCC). I sometimes hoped the politicians would be coming to their senses in the TTIP and ACTA negotiations and the EU copyright regulations - my idea would be that digital content could be sold freely across the regions and a clearinghouse-rule is established for things where different regional publishing rights exist, so the royalties are somehow split between the owner of the copyright at seller's and buyer's place. But this seems to be a pipe dream. The way the system is set up is intentional from a publisher's perspective as they can reap higher earnings this way - it's an example of differentiating markets in a monopoly. That it leads not only to expensive, but also to unavailable resources, is just collateral damage.