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Old 10-28-2010, 11:45 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
No, it doesn't. We used to have such a thing (called the Net Book Agreement), but it was ruled to be unlawful in the 1990s). The UK book market is now completely unregulated, and it's not uncommon for supermarkets to sell bestsellers at half price or below.
Ah ok, I did not know this, thanks for correcting. Indeed Tescos sometimes have highly discounted books or book sets. And now they are everywhere... Except academic, antiquarians and specialists, such as Botswell in Oxford, probably helped by the Uni proximity, I do not know a lot of small bookshops there.
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