Material goods, even if online sale is a matter of location. If material goods are delivered, they are subject to more shipping. They may be subject to taxation, and other inspections, for most controls and government regulations to avoid trouble. All these factors result and the relative position of the seller and the buyer is still very important, especially if in different nations.
In the digital domain, but it is much easier to handle, or simply ignore such things as location and taxes. While the payment may be made, do not count physical location.

This poses both opportunities and challenges. People now have the opportunity to consume goods and stocks, no matter where they are in the world. Vendors have the opportunity to market around the world billions of people.

But it also poses new challenges for companies and governments have sought to control and manage the distribution of goods. Companies will increasingly compete on a truly global scale and have to deal with hackers and pirates to affect many countries, not even heard.

The quantity of digital goods is likely to grow in the future. An example can be found in music to be seen. Not long ago it was a physical product is often purchased in neighborhood stores. Now it is a purely digital product is purchased (or shared online), more and more like movies, games and software.

As technology improve, will create new avenues for digital distribution. For example, readers of books and other digital devices attached to the way consumers buy books, newspapers, magazines and other materials that were usually sold locally to changes in the past.