Some of the more venerable readers of the forum might remember the NET book agreement. This was a deal between publishers and booksellers that fixed the price at which any particular book could be sold. The reasoning was that publishers needed a guaranteed income so they could take risks on new authors and publish worthy tomes which wouldn't sell much but should be available to interested readers. It lasted between 1900 and 1995, and resulted in everybody having to pay an inflated price for books. Did its demise result in smaller bookshops closing? Yes, but it did mean that more and more people could afford to buy their own books instead of joining the waiting list for the latest Jack Reacher in the local library.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Bookshops & Amazon	28/02/20 16:59:00	Philippa Bond
Reply	28/02/20 17:30:00	N V Brooks
Re:Reply	28/02/20 18:53:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Bookshops & Amazon	28/02/20 19:02:00	Guy Lambert
Reply	28/02/20 20:32:00	N V Brooks
Re:Reply	29/02/20 16:18:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Reply	29/02/20 16:31:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Re:Re:Reply	29/02/20 17:46:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	29/02/20 18:11:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	29/02/20 18:30:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	29/02/20 18:56:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	02/03/20 16:38:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	02/03/20 17:02:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	03/03/20 13:44:00	Mark Gormley
Reply	03/03/20 13:59:00	N V Brooks
Re:Reply	03/03/20 21:32:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Reply	04/03/20 19:29:00	Mark Gormley
Re:Re:Re:Reply	05/03/20 01:10:00	Philippa Bond

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