BOOK PRICING
February 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLIMPORTS of books into European Union Member States with fixed-price regimes should also be subject to the same controls as locally published books under a comprehensive, but very flexible, EU directive on book-pricing, the European Parliament's legal committee has said.It would - in effect - enshrine in EU law the right of Member States to forge restrictive pricing systems, affording them protection to legal challenges. The idea came in a paper written by German socialist MEP Willi Rothley following recent book-price controversies, (notably those ...
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