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France faces battle over ebook pricing law
May 5, 2011 | 9:03 am
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By Paul Biba
That’s what The Bookseller is saying this morning:
France is bracing for battle with the European Commission with its parliament on the verge of adopting a bill allowing publishers to fix prices for all e-books sold in France.
The bill, which was approved unanimously by an all-party committee from both houses of parliament on Tuesday, said retailers inside or outside France must respect the fixed prices. Final votes in the Senate tonight (5th May) and the National Assembly on 17th May are seen as formalities. So far, Google and Amazon have said they will comply with the law and Apple is expected to do so too.
The cross-border clause has been the main stumbling block to the bill.
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The agency model aside, thank God I’m an American! The government insertion into the free market in France gives me the creeps!
I think it will also prevent the ebook market from expanding as it would have otherwise. Any government regulation will have that effect.
What a bizarre comment. The Agency Model is in operation in America … France is thinking of legalising the Agency Model … and you are glad to be ‘American’ because the French Gov is ‘inserting’ into the free market. Hmmmm.
Thank goodness we don’t have any of that nasty government insertion into the free market here in America. No trillion dollar bank bailouts for us! No big government buying a stake in the Auto companies. We don’t have any of that Medicare or Social Security or Mandated Health care here. No farm subsidies or corporate tax breaks. None of that!
No sir! And heck, our government would never extend copyright into infinity and push for a global copyright crackdown at the behest of industry. That would be insertion into the free market and our government just wouldn’t do it.
Common Sense, you must be mentally locked into some kind of Leave It To Beaver alternate view of reality if you think our massive, bloated Federal Government does not have it’s claws into every single tiny aspect of our imaginary “Free Market”.