Talk:Net Book Agreement

message: Okay, after seriouly messing the history of this page (sorry), I think that the article Fixed Book Price Agreement should be created alongside the current article. The NBA is the British flavour of the FBP, and much of the content here refers only to the British case. Please add Fixed Book Price Agreement to your whatchlist if you happen to be interested by this subject. Bokken | 木刀 09:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBA and FBP 

message: Propping up one thing at the expense of something else begs the following question;
Q: Is the thing that needs propping up worth propping up?
A [| recent report] suggested that subsidies on fishing are actually counter productive. Why would subsidies on books (Charging extra for some to enable a reduced price on others) not have the same overall effect?
EG:
500 book-shops closed following the collapse of the agreement, resulting in 1,500 people losing their jobs. 
10,000 other locations (super-markets etc) started selling books (when before they did not) and employed an additional 2,000 staff (one new staff member per 5 supermarkets) across the board. Net result, 500 new jobs.
I do not Know the answers. The picture is too "big" and the data too limited such that is is probably not possible to say if the agreement was good, bad, or indifferent. All one can do is look as other similar agreements where the data is better known, and infer from it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BernieDog (talk • contribs) 12:36, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a huge difference between fishing subsidies and the NBA. The fishing industry is subsidised from outside - i.e. the government or the European Union. By contrast, the NBA was a cross-subsidy entirely internal to book publishing - publishers did not receive money from elsewhere other than in normal sales. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:34, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: An academic attempt at answering that question is available here (pdf, Office of Fair Trading). Shorter: the end of the NBA allowed entry by more productive and innovative players, to such an exetent that gains outweight losses in the small-scale bookshop sector. Bokken | 木刀 16:32, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider 

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