Thread: French culture minister: "Allowing publishers to fix prices is best"
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Old 05-16-2012, 06:13 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
To be honest I believe that cheaper books is the best way to serve the public good. Books promote literacy, a public good that is in the interest of both society and the individual member of society. Any interference by government that increases the price of books, no matter how well intended, ends up being counter productive. In Sweden or VAT is 25 % (Americans! Consider yourself lucky) but it is only 6 % on reading material.
Cheaper books puts more books into circulation.
That can hardy be a bad thing, can it?
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