Re: World Book Day (22 April)

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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