Thread: EU starts investigation into e-book price fixing
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Old 03-02-2011, 07:19 AM   #6
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Jeremy, in France the retail prices for both paper and ebooks are fixed by the publishers - this is actually an obligation under French law, though the retailers are allowed to apply a discount of up to 5% at their discretion - at least it's consistent!

In the UK, publishers are not allowed to fix the retail price of paper books (the Net Price Agreement was ruled anti-competitive and illegal) but for now some are getting away with agency pricing for ebooks...

Edit: I don't know about other EU countries, it would be nice people could post what the legal position in their county is
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