Canoy, Marcel; van Ours, Jan C.; van der Ploeg, Frederick - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 721-761). 2006
This chapter analyses the tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses and includes insights from the theory of industrial organisation. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books,...
