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Amazon to win EU e-book pricing tussle with Apple
November 6, 2012 | 8:15 pm
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European Union regulators are to end an antitrust probe into e-book prices by accepting an offer by Apple and four publishers to ease price restrictions on Amazon, two sources said on Tuesday.
That decision would hand online retailer Amazon a victory in its attempt to sell e-books cheaper than rivals in the fast-growing market publishers hope will boost revenue and increase customer numbers.
Source: Reuters
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My sense is that American businesses have given up on meddlesome EU regulations and cultural hangups. They simply set the prices high enough there to cover the hassles. That’s probably why Adobe products cost so much more over there. Book publishers might as well do the same.
Long term, Western Europe is doomed, particularly the countries in the south. Too few babies, a growing unwillingness to accept risk, and too little assimilation of immigrants along with, in some countries, a rapidly disappearing work ethic. Civility and decorum is suffering too, particularly in the UK. The world of Agatha Christie is gone.
As a writer, I sometimes consider taking another stay in Europe, but I draw a blank when I consider where. The disappearance of those once lively and large Italian families would depress me. Spain is no longer cheap. London is a mess. Berlin is cold in more ways than temperature. Maybe Munich, but it’s probably too expensive for my budget.
Maybe I could get a Eurrail pass, living and writing on the trains as I roam from city to city, contemplating a Europe that won’t be around in another generation or two. I’d probably feel like a Goth visiting Rome in the fifth century.