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Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Dialogic, together with APE, examined the effects and effectiveness of the Fixed Book Price Act. This law was established to protect books as cultural goods and aims to promote a wide availability and diverse range of books in Dutch and Frisian languages through a geographically diverse network of bookstores in the Netherlands.
The research focused, among other things, on the diversity of titles offered in the period 2013-2018. Additionally, it mapped the developments in the 'physical book landscape' and investigated digital developments in e-commerce and e-books.
Read the Chamber Letter from Minister Van Engelshoven about this third evaluation of the Fixed Book Price Act here.
Download the infographic with trends and developments from 2013 to 2018 here.
The full evaluation can be downloaded here.
