From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-04-25, Aidan Kehoe  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:Count   
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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