What's illegal about buying or selling books?<p>The publishers have a contract with distributors in those poorer countries that prohibits those distributors from distributing the books here. But, anybody who DOESN'T have a contract with the book publisher can buy from the distribitor and sell them here, unless their local laws prohibit that. And, nothing in OUR laws prohibits buying them--by now it's well established that you cannot really enforce laws against buying books.<p>Do you <i>want</i> the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page.