Cover prices -- authors fight back.
While book retailers and publishers thrash out the pros and cons of removing printed r.r.p.s, authors are campaigning against abolition. Writers, with the full backing of the Society of Authors, the Association of Authors' Agents and the Royal Society of Literature, are going, metaphorically, to the...
| Publicado en: | Bookseller no. 5118; pp. 28 - 31 |
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Bookseller Media Ltd
3/5/2004
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