The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses … good idea to harmonise European book policies. Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent … solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government …

avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

After describing the essential features of the book market, a welfare analysis of the fixed book price agreement is … given. Allowance is made for the opportunity cost of reading. Theoretically, the agreement pushes up book prices and … depresses book sales. However, more titles will be published, particularly of books with low price elasticity and that take a …