Download This PaperA European Perspective on Agency Agreements for the Sale of eBooks: Happily Ever After or the End of the Story?
43 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2012
Date Written: May 1, 2012
Abstract
The aims of this paper are threefold: • To examine the relevant product and geographic market (‘eBooks’ or ‘all books’? National, European or global?) • To put recent antitrust activity relating to the pricing of eBooks into context • To look at whether, given the activity detailed above, vertical restraints in the form of agency agreements could still play a role in the development of the market.
Keywords: e-books, eBooks, Department of Justice, European Commission, Publishing industry, agency model, agency agreements
JEL Classification: L41, L42, K21, D43, L82
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Linklater, Emma, A European Perspective on Agency Agreements for the Sale of eBooks: Happily Ever After or the End of the Story? (May 1, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2052119 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2052119
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