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Originally Posted by Halk
Essentially it means that HarperCollins and Doubleday do not compete in their areas. Which is price fixing, and in my opinion the same as illegal price fixing. I don't know if this price fixing is illegal or not.
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I don't think it counts as price fixing - the rights to publish his books within certain markets (US one market, UK another) have been licensed to the publishers, and by the terms of the contract the publisher with US publishing rights can't sell their copy of the book in the UK, and vice versa. Strikes me as bleeding ridiculous in this day and age, but it's actually adhering to law rather than breaking it
