On Monday, teams of investigators from the European Commission descended on the offices of the major French publishers, including Hachette, Gallimard, Flammarion and others, around 10:30 am to look through their computers and other IT gear to check for evidence of collusion to fix prices for e-books.
France is on the verge of passing legislation to establish the one price rule for e-books (paper books in France can be discounted to a maximum of only 5%), and to require that foreign sites selling their books on the French market adhere to the same rules.
It would seem that this is running counter to the European legislation on free competition and Brussels is not happy.
For the original story (in French) here is the link.
http://www.01net.com/editorial/52918...-les-prix-maj/