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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
This article is interesting. It says a number of things:
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2. It includes a claim by Hachette that the Agency model is legal in the EU
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It's certainly legal in Spain. Books can barely be discounted (perhaps 10 cents, tops) by big booksellers because these would hurt small booksellers.
However, they keep telling us that ebooks are not books, they are services, and thus the VAT is much higher with ebooks. So maybe the price fixing should not apply with ebooks here.