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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon UK and the publishers should also get sued. In the UK, the government did away with VAT for eBooks and the prices didn't change. They should have gone down. But the greedy Amazon/publishers kept the prices the same.
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The Retail Price Fixing by Publishers and Manufactures was done away with in the UK and Ireland some years ago. The last two.
The Publishers should be able to set a price to Apple, Google, Amazon, Smashwords for books (same also for games). Then the retailer charges whatever they want. Why is this actually illegal in UK and Ireland of the Publisher setting a retail price and getting a percentage decided by Amazon allowed at all?
It's not allowed in real shops for anything, in Ireland and the UK.
The mysterious way VAT works is a whole separate issue and irrelevant to this.
Are publishers allowed to set the RETAIL price in USA physical shops, or only set the price they sell to retail or wholesale? Which varies elsewhere, like supermarkets only stock already successful books and get a discount, in UK and Ireland, because basically of volume, probably cuts out wholesalers.