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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
That's not what the law says. Basically, publishers dictate prices, but there is no obligation to sell ebooks for the same price as pbooks. It's just that German ebooks will cost the same everywhere, just as pbooks do.
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Interesting; are you sure that's right? I took a look at the book price law, but it didn't really distinguish between e-books and regular books, and a lot of the articles on e-books in Germany mention that they are more expensive because they have to pay the software VAT and not the book VAT. (Although of course the fact that publishers could charge less for e-books doesn't mean that they are).