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Kali Yuga · 03-02-2011, 11:27 PM

Bookseller has some more info: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/eu...ce-fixing.html

If you expect the publishers to get railed, I wouldn't get your hopes up over this.

• The French Competition Authority already cleared the publishers.
• Lang Laws in France and similar laws throughout the EU require that publisher set prices, and retailers can't discount more than 5% (as Polyglot pointed out).

I don't expect this will amount to much, especially once the Lang Laws et al get extended to ebooks.

03-02-2011, 11:27 PM	#3
Kali Yuga Professional Contrarian Posts: 2,045 Karma: 3289631 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 4 No Touchie	Bookseller has some more info: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/eu...ce-fixing.html If you expect the publishers to get railed, I wouldn't get your hopes up over this. • The French Competition Authority already cleared the publishers. • Lang Laws in France and similar laws throughout the EU require that publisher set prices, and retailers can't discount more than 5% (as Polyglot pointed out). I don't expect this will amount to much, especially once the Lang Laws et al get extended to ebooks.