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geertm · 09-18-2010, 01:06 PM

Saw this mentioned on Teleread.
According to The Bookseller Hachette UK will start agency pricing on Monday September 20.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/12...om-monday.html

I hope that Amazon has learned from the situation in the US and will not cave in to the publishers this time. Otherwise probably all the big publishers in the UK will be using the agency model in the near future.

I wonder if this kind of price fixing is something the EU can do something about?

EDIT: I wonder if this is why the new WH Smith store does no longer sell e-books outside the UK. Do they already know that agency pricing is coming? And do the agency publishers not permit selling outside the UK?

09-18-2010, 01:06 PM	#14
geertm Guru Posts: 822 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: The Netherlands Device: Kobo Aura One	Saw this mentioned on Teleread. According to The Bookseller Hachette UK will start agency pricing on Monday September 20. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/12...om-monday.html I hope that Amazon has learned from the situation in the US and will not cave in to the publishers this time. Otherwise probably all the big publishers in the UK will be using the agency model in the near future. I wonder if this kind of price fixing is something the EU can do something about? EDIT: I wonder if this is why the new WH Smith store does no longer sell e-books outside the UK. Do they already know that agency pricing is coming? And do the agency publishers not permit selling outside the UK? Last edited by geertm; 09-18-2010 at 01:13 PM.