Originally Posted by HarryT
We used to have such a law in the UK: the "Net Book Agreement". In 1997 it was declared, following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading, to be against the public interest, and therefore illegal.
The collapse of the Net Book Agreement has certainly lowered book prices, but it has also beeen directly responsible for the almost complete disappearance of small independent bookshops from the British highstreet.
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