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Old 09-19-2008, 11:49 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by ronnn View Post
As being both french and proud owner of an PRS-505 (bought in the US last year), what i'm curious about is the price the books will be proposed at.
For those of you who are not familliar with France, we have a wonderful (ahem) system in which the editor or the importator fixes the price of a book once and for all, allowing only 5% difference from the fixed price. It's called " Le prix unique du livre ".And yes, it's a law (since 1981 - Loi Lang)

Considering that by this law, a book (un livre) is defined as this :
Un livre est un ensemble imprimé, illustré ou non, publié sous un titre ayant pour objet la reproduction d'une œuvre de l'esprit d'un ou plusieurs auteurs en vue de l'enseignement, de la diffusion de la pensée et de la culture.
Which roughly translates to :
A book is a printed ensemble, illustrated or not, published under a title being the reproduction of an intellectual work of art from one or may authors ...
(Please anyone more fluent in english correct me ... )
The thing here being that a book is "printed", which an ebook is not ...
Well, we'll see how things are
France still has retail price maintenance? That is surprising. Just buy your books and ebooks cheaper then from elsewhere in the EU.
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