Price of digital books: The French Competition Authority renders an opinion in which it seems reluctant to extend the fixing of book prices to digital books (Livre numérique)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Should Lang's law be extended to e-books? This is essentially the question put to the Competition Authority by the Minister of Culture and the communication in a request for an opinion in May 2009. The The minister's fear is that what happened to the book will happen again... for music and that price competition from digital books does not entail a risk of "cannibalization" of the book "paper" by the book digital. On 12 January 2010, the Competition Authority made public its response. This is the opinion No. 09-A-56 of December 18, 2009. The Competition Authority shows itself there rather