Im westdeutschen Buchhandel haben in den letzten Jahren große Veränderungen stattgefunden. Neben einer Vielzahl von kleinen Buchhandlungen sind in sehr guten Geschäftslagen Buchkaufhäuser entstanden, die auf einer Verkaufsfläche von mehreren tausend Quadratmetern über 100 000 verschiedene...

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,...

This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...