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Originally Posted by treadlightly
So how can Kobo sell the book for less than Amazon when the price is supposedly fixed by the publisher?
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Supposedly, publishers do not engage in price fixing.
I
gather from this link that, in 2009, Canada changed the penalty for vertical price fixing (the kind that you are writing about) from criminal to civil. But it still is illegal in Canada, and, I think most other capitalist countries. The US is of course an exception due to that 2007 Supreme Court ruling which, with some ambigity, legalized vertical price fixing here.