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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: World Book Day (22 April)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:58:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-25, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

> There has been a bit of coverage lately in the bits of the web that I read of
> the really minimal sales of most books (in the US, because that’s where a
> an antitrust case revealed the details). It’s a fascinating picture, quite a
> hit-driven economy, lots of money lost on loads of books.

The argument that bestsellers subsidize the availability of a larger
variety of books comes up regularly in debates about fixed book
price laws, which exist in a number of Continental European and
other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price#/media/File:Countries-with-a-Fixed-Book-Price-Agreement.svg

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de