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Originally Posted by HarryT
Precisely. Many European countries have fixed pricing for books on the grounds that, while it may perhaps be better for the individual consumer to have unrestricted competition, it makes society as a whole a lot poorer. Every shopping street in Britain used to have its independent bookseller; today we just have Waterstones. Does being able to buy the latest trashy bestseller half price in a supermarket make up for the loss of the small book shop? I'm not so sure it does.
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Meh, we've got our "Buchpreisbindung" in Germany and I don't see many independent bookstores in our shopping streets, it's all big chains here too.
And those big chains do discount books, they just have to put a stamp or sticker somewhere that declares those books to be defect in some way.