That is important, he said, because new book prices have soared in recent years.

Many small German publishers see fixed book prices as a matter of life and death.

And there is good reason Amazon can afford to cut book prices.

Whether you have book price fixing everywhere or not, that is the trend.

Are you going to raise the issue of book price fixing in the Netherlands again?

Culturally speaking, it is in our interest to have book price fixing.

But you can do that just as well in a country which has no book price fixing.

But then we need national fixed book prices which work.

I think that fixed book prices are exactly the right instrument in this case.

These words are of great value in the debate on fixed book prices.