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#885
September 02, 2011, 01:55:33 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on August 31, 2011, 05:09:49 AM
Tomorrow in Italy a law will be enacted that will ban discounts over -15% on books, so Amazon.it is doing a megasale applying -40% on over 200.000 books, ending tonight.

I just ordered them more than 300 euros of books  :blush: I should be ok until Christmas at least.

L.

What are they trying to accomplish with that law?

Habbaku

#886
September 02, 2011, 02:22:30 PM
Kickbacks from the publishing industry?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Razgovory

#887
September 02, 2011, 05:48:13 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on August 31, 2011, 05:09:49 AM
Tomorrow in Italy a law will be enacted that will ban discounts over -15% on books, so Amazon.it is doing a megasale applying -40% on over 200.000 books, ending tonight.

I just ordered them more than 300 euros of books  :blush: I should be ok until Christmas at least.

L.

Damn.  I ordered a 39 cent book last month from Amazon.  What an asinine law.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

#888
September 02, 2011, 11:10:49 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on September 02, 2011, 01:35:50 PM
France does something similar.  I imagine a few other Euros do the same thing.  :yuk:

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_Book_Price_Agreement for reference.

There's a reason why it's often a lot cheaper to get an English book vs. a German one - German books don't go on sale. These fixed prices also apply to e-books.
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The Brain

#889
September 03, 2011, 02:58:48 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 02, 2011, 11:10:49 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on September 02, 2011, 01:35:50 PM
France does something similar.  I imagine a few other Euros do the same thing.  :yuk:

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_Book_Price_Agreement for reference.



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#890
September 03, 2011, 03:15:39 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on August 31, 2011, 05:09:49 AM
Tomorrow in Italy a law will be enacted that will ban discounts over -15% on books, so Amazon.it is doing a megasale applying -40% on over 200.000 books, ending tonight.

I just ordered them more than 300 euros of books  :blush: I should be ok until Christmas at least.

L.
Why? And how can that even be legal. :blink:
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Syt

#891
September 03, 2011, 03:24:16 AM
When Amazon started out in Germany they would often give out book vouchers e.g. for christmas. They had to stop that practice, because these were deemed illegal rebates on books.
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Pedrito

#892
September 03, 2011, 07:10:03 AM
Quote from: Barrister on September 02, 2011, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on August 31, 2011, 05:09:49 AM
Tomorrow in Italy a law will be enacted that will ban discounts over -15% on books,

What an enormously stupid law.

Oh, right.

Italy.

Europe

:(
FYP

France and Germany did this for years.

Enormously stupid, I confirm.

L.
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#893
September 03, 2011, 07:19:03 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 03, 2011, 03:15:39 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on August 31, 2011, 05:09:49 AM
Tomorrow in Italy a law will be enacted that will ban discounts over -15% on books, so Amazon.it is doing a megasale applying -40% on over 200.000 books, ending tonight.

I just ordered them more than 300 euros of books  :blush: I should be ok until Christmas at least.

L.
Why? And how can that even be legal. :blink:
In order to defeat chain bookstores.  Mind you, in the age of the internet, I don't think it's that important.  Still, pretty much every country of imporantce in Europe except the UK does it.
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BuddhaRhubarb

#894
September 04, 2011, 04:54:42 PM
in the middle of the middle book of Varley's "Gaea" trilogy - Wizard. I'd forgotten almost all of this one. good quick read kind of SF with nits of sexy, bits of weird, bits of Science all mashed together nicely.
:p

The Brain

#895
September 06, 2011, 08:46:47 AM
Reading Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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PDH

#896
September 06, 2011, 09:48:20 AM
Rereading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, good book, and a remarkable tension in the author (forty years later) that always strikes me.  Okinawa especially becomes a hell in this book.
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11B4V

#897
September 06, 2011, 09:48:58 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 06, 2011, 09:48:20 AM
Rereading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, good book, and a remarkable tension in the author (forty years later) that always strikes me.  Okinawa especially becomes a hell in this book.

Good choice, excellent book.
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#898
September 10, 2011, 03:32:11 AM
Reread "Congo Mercenary" by Mike Hoare. About his actions in the '64 Congo Crisis. Been two decades or so since the last read.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Kleves

#899
September 10, 2011, 09:40:49 AM
Anyone read any good sci-fi lately?
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