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Originally Posted by lindaf
In quebec (Canada), a set price for books has been looked at many times by the legislators. It never went through, but the thinking is that mega stores (like Costco or Walmart) which only carry bestsellers should not be allowed to sell them at cost (like some stores are doing). The small libraries need to sell the blockbusters in order to be able to stock some less popular books, like poetry or philosophy. As I said, it never went through, but what will happen now with ebooks? Will the librairians ask for something similar?
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The cost of an ebook is equal to its price, which is in 99.9% of the cases set by the author. I'm not talking about true costs, maybe ebooks don't even have costs. Only price.
Things should get really interesting when more people have ereaders.