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Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:52:31 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:35:05 GMT, richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net
(Richard Dee) wrote:
> *books were kept high-cost despite no VAT, due to the "Net Book
> Agreement." Basically, an anti-competitive measure agreed upon
> by the publishers to keep prices high. That fell apart when a
> couple of firms released out-of-copyright books at only a pound
> each. (And I imagine Project Gutenburg, wiretap.spies and the
> like, helped nailing that coffin)
But I don't _want_ to read Pride & prejudice or Shakespeare. I want to
read Arthur C Clarke, or Asimov, or Auel, or Jordan, or Hell, even
Williams and/or Eddings!
Jasper 'same thing here, naturally" Janssen
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| On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:32:42 GMT, Selçuk <teyyareci> uttered the following profundities... (...) In the UK, it is a flat, 17.5% on everything, except... natural gas (8%), and books*, children's clothes, and food, which is zero-rated(no tax). *books (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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