Editing Price fixing (section)

===United Kingdom===
British competition law prohibits almost any attempt to fix prices.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/cartels-price-fixing|title=Avoid and report anti-competitive activity|publisher=[[Government of the United Kingdom]]|website=gov.uk|access-date=January 20, 2023}}</ref>

The [[Net Book Agreement]] was a public agreement between UK booksellers from 1900 to 1991 to sell new books only at the recommended retail price to protect the revenues of smaller bookshops. The agreement collapsed in 1991, when the large book chain [[Dillons Booksellers|Dillons]] began discounting books, followed by rival [[Waterstones]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]/[[British Academy]]|year=2005|page=275|isbn=978-0197263266|doi=10.5871/bacad/9780197263266.001.0001|editor1-last=Daunton|editor1-first=Martin|editor1-link=Martin Daunton}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/07/business/the-media-business-british-book-shops-in-price-skirmishes.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Suzanne|last=Cassidy|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; British Book Shops in Price Skirmishes|date=October 7, 1991|access-date=January 20, 2023|url-access=limited}}</ref>

However, price-fixing is still legal in the magazine and newspaper distribution industry, and sometimes in the motion picture industry.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stevens|first=John Paul|date=April 2020|title=Price-Fixing in the Motion Picture Industry|url=https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1422&context=nulr|format=PDF|journal=[[Northwestern University Law Review]]|volume=114|issue=7|pages=1787–1804|access-date=January 20, 2023|issn=0029-3571}}</ref> Retailers who sell at below cover price are subject to withdrawal of supply. The [[Office of Fair Trading]] has given its approval to the ''status quo''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}