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Originally Posted by IceHand
I have one question concerning big chains vs. smaller independents: Here in Germany it's forbidden to sell books at anything other than the list price (except used and misprinted books), that's not the case in the US?
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This is from my own experience as a former bookseller and buyer for (at that time), the largest independent bookstore in Arkansas:
Some books are charged a net price to the store, such as
law books,
medical and
nursing books, and it is up to the store to decide what percent of margin they want to raise the book from its net pricing.
The example books I mentioned above are not pre-priced, so a store figures in the shipping costs (huge!), overhead, inventory, staff payroll, etc. and then prices the books accordingly.
Lay books are totally different, of course.
Don