Publishers and librarians have been waiting for months with bated breath for the Supreme Court's decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley and Sons, the most important first sale case in a century. International publishers will be using their recovered breath to curse the outcome; librarians will be using theirs to cheer. The Court voted 6-3 that first sale applies uniformly, whether books are published in the United States or abroad.
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