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Students Get Reimported Textbooks
RALEIGH — College textbooks published in the US but exported to booksellers overseas are in many cases cheaper for students to “reimport” than it is for them to buy from domestic booksellers. With textbook prices skyrocketing, college bookstores in NC and elsewhere are discussing ways to exploit those cheaper overseas prices. The Internet makes it easy to see foreign prices, and in 1998 the Supreme Court ruled that copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the US.
