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The French Senate has voted for price fixing on e-books, with the new law also banning libraries from offering e-books as soon as they are released.
E-books had been exempt from France's 1981 Lang law that stopped the sale of books for less than 5% below cover price.
Publishing Perspectives reports that Frédéric Mitterrand, French minister for culture and communication, hailed the passing of the law.
However, French publishing website Actualitté slammed it as a "catastrophe" because of its protectionist nature. It also criticised the law's stipulation that libraries cannot offer e-books for
lending at the time they go on sale.