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This chapter analyses the tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in … is not a 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 …