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Originally Posted by roger the rabbit
I thought retail price maintenance (price fixing) was made illegal in the UK many years ago.
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Yes, in 1964, except for a few things, including books. The Net Book Agreement was only made illegal in 1997, but it had started to be abandoned (by some retailers) in 1991.
It seems it's not legal in the US either. So I'm not quite sure how the publishers expect to enforce it on Amazon. I don't really see the how calling Amazon an "agent" is going to help. I do feel that the courts will think that if it looks and acts like a retailer, it /is/ a retailer.