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 … market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants for authors and publishers, a lower value-added tax, public … libraries and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and …