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Old 10-03-2013, 11:00 AM   #6
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Didn't Apple just get slapped hard by the US government for doing what the French government did: Force retailers to reduce their discounts in order to keep the price of books artificially high?
The book market is not a "free market" in many countries - it has legally-enforced price fixing. France, like many other countries, has made the decision that fixed pricing for books benefits society overall by supporting small independent booksellers.
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