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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Could prices be lower? For certain blockbuster books, certainly. Would that, in the long term, lead to a reduced selection of available books? Wouldn't that mean that all bookstores would have to stock those books they think had the biggest mass market appeal? The various governments like to think so, and I for one consider it an entirely valid point of view.
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How do book prices in France and Germany compare with those in UK, which abolished its fixed book price agreement? I think the answer is that they are (significantly) higher. Is the UK suffering from a poor selection of books?