Bertrams blows the whistle on publishers.
The article reports that Bertram Group has called for an Office of Fair Trading investigation on suppliers who were involved in threatening sanctions to stop the company transferring wholesale discounts into the public library sector. The move neatly sidesteps publishers' stranglehold on advantageou...
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