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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by shadowgovt on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:00PM (#23198012)
Right? That's the thing; it's not. Not by consumers, anyway.

Now, French book-sellers, on the other hand, appreciate the law that keeps them in business for aesthetic reasons, whether or not it makes economic sense or they can stay financially competitive when the price of data transmission has crashed past too-small-to-meter-per-word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law

Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by sciurus on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:06PM (#23199448)
This is something interesting I was completely unaware of. It's not just France, lots of countries have legally fixed book prices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price