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It's what I would expect from this granny super state. The same arguments which Authors United put forward in the US which were met largely with derision (including some great "fisking" by Joe Konrath) have long been accepted as gospel in Europe. "Culture", meaning the large established publishers and their existing distributions networks must be protected at all costs and damn the consumer.
@MikeB. Your point would certainly be a good one so far as English language books are concerned. I'm not so sure that self-publishing has taken off to the same extent so far as non English language books are concerned. I'm not saying you are wrong. I simply don't know.
So far the EU seems to be slowing the pace of progress over there to a crawl. How long they continue to succeed in doing so remains to be seen.
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