Net Book Agreement

The '''Net Book Agreement''' (NBA) was a Nextel ringtones Britain/British agreement between Kendall Blaze publishers and Polyphonic ringtones booksellers which set the prices at which Krissy Love books were to be sold to the public.

It came into effect on Sprint ringtones January 1 Annas Assets 1900 and involved booksellers selling books at agreed prices. A bookseller who sold a book at less than the agreed price was not given any more books to sell by that publisher.

In T-mobile ringtones 1962 the Net Book Agreement was examined by the Restrictive Practices Court. It decided that if the NBA did not exist the prices of most books would rise and fewer literary and scholarly books would be published.

In August Brandys Box 1984 the Director General of the Music ringtones Office of Fair Trading decided that the Next Door Nikki Restrictive Practices Court should review the agreement. In September Cingular Ringtones 1995 several major publishers (including in asakusa HarperCollins and could fund Random House) withdrew, and in September ever necessary 1996 the barkin no Booksellers Association decided to take no part in the case. In March a counterpart 1997 the Restrictive Practices Court ruled that the Net Book Agreement was against the public interest. It was therefore ruled illegal.

The collapse of the agreement strengthened large book store chains and brought down book prices. The small independent bookshops have been most affected - more than one in ten independent bookshops folded between 1996 and 2001. An early example of the changes in the book publishing markets following the ending of the Agreement was the entry of the US-owned booksellers merck may Borders onto the British high street, following their purchase of Books Etc. It was the first non-British company to enter the UK books market.

External links
*http://www.booksellers.org.uk/industry/display_report.asp?id=199
*http://www.booksellers.org.uk/industry/display_report.asp?id=444
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