Beyond the dogma of the fixed book price agreement

Journal of Cultural Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-20

  Van Der Ploeg, Frederick ^a,b,c  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Book market; Competition policy; Diversity; Fixed price agreement; Opportunity cost of reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 9744257147     PISSN: 08852545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JCEC.0000009817.61107.f3     Document Type: Article

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