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Originally Posted by tweety
I thought the NET book agreement was dropped years ago (illegal?).
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Yes and Net on drugs in Pharmacies. The last two legal Supplier controls of retail price in the UK. Not sure when in Ireland. But this is a different agreement, it's international and implemented by Amazon, Apple, Google and others for ebooks and apps. It's nothing to do with the old Net Book law (originally suppliers could set retail price of nearly anything).
I agree, it should be stopped. Electronic formats sold via the Internet should not have a magically different status. The clue is the percentage paid by the retailers of the retail price to the supplier. That's wrong. The supplier should get 100% of whatever price they set to the retailer and then it's up to the retailer to set the retail price and thus their margin.