Net Book Agreement (NBA)
A resale price maintenance agreement made in 1899 between the UK Publishers Association and UK and Irish booksellers that books would be sold to the public at the price set by the publisher, and that a bookseller attempting to sell a book at a lower price would no longer be supplied with books from that publisher. Educational, and certain academic, books were excluded from the NBA. In 1991 two major booksellers started selling books at discounted prices, and in 1995 several major publishers decided to withdraw from the NBA. In March 1997 a court ruled that the NBA was a restrictive practice which was not in the public interest, and was, therefore, illegal.... ...
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