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Originally Posted by Halk
That by definition is price fixing. What matters though is if it comes down legally as price fixing, and I don't know the answer to that.
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Huh. I wonder if we're working with the same definitions, then. To me, price fixing = an agreement between two vendors to sell a particular product at the same price, with the intent of keeping the price artificially high.
Now this isn't an agreement between two publishers, it's two agreements between agent and publisher. And the prices aren't the same, either.
The 'right' of authors to license their copyrights to different publishers in different countries is supported in Australian law, at least - there's been a huge furore recently over here about relaxing restrictions to allow, say, a US-published book to be imported for sale (generally at a lower price) when an Australian-published edition of the book is already available.