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Originally Posted by ingmar
Not so. While individual states may enforce local minimum price laws in regards to books, they really can't do that when being sold from another state. This is a small problem with physical books, but an issue nevertheless (German books are sold to Hungary, say, at a discount and then re-imported). The "price fixing laws" only applies to in-country brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers.
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Actually, now that the EU is charging non-EU sellers VAT for sales to EU addressed customers, the countries could require that the seller send them the difference between the sale price and the legal price and then distribute this to the publisher.