billy99k 12 hours ago

I used to be in the book business. We would constantly see students and other sellers try to pass off Indian editions as the regular edition, and charge full price.

When I was in college, I made the mistake of buying an Indian edition for a class, thinking it was the same. It had much less content and the problem sets were completely different. It ended up being unusable and I had to buy the regular edition.

potato-peeler 11 hours ago

> Kirtsaeng counter-argued that the first-sale doctrine rendered copyright no longer applicable

I remember before this case, books used to have a clause in its first page that resell or distribution is not allowed. So according to the first-sale doctrine, that clause has no enforceability?

Rohitcss 12 hours ago

Not surprising at all considering overall lesser demand of printed material in addition to the decline in printing international editions.