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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
"French law-makers have just decreed that any eBook sold in France must cost the same as its paper versions in a unanimous ruling in the French Senate."
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Actually? They have done no such thing. Even a casual perusal of the actual law in question with the help of Google's translation services makes it rather plain that the law does not mandate that eBooks cost the same as paper editions of the same book.
What it does, or purports to do at least, is to put eBooks under the same kind of pricing regulations as paper books if that book is available as both a paper book and an eBook. Namely, that the same
eBook has to have the same fixed price, set by the publisher, regardless of where you buy it. Which, as HarryT said, has the purpose of protecting small local vendors from huge international conglomerates like Amazon.