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Outgoing French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has written to European Competition commissioner Joaquin Almnunia warning that investigations now underway could foster predatory book pricing by powerful distributors such as Amazon, the French trade publication Livres Hebdo has reported.

Allowing publishers to fix prices has proved to be the best way of preventing a single player from imposing its economic model in the United States and Europe, and has permitted them to reduce e-book prices to levels that “reconcile the legitimate interests of the consumer and a fair remuneration for creation”, he said.