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The National Heritage Select Committee is right to assume that the Net Book Agreement (NBA), which permits publishers to fix the retail price of their books, will eventually collapse under the pressure of discounting. However, this does not mean that the government should not become involved in this issue. Indeed, if publishers continue to try to retain price controls for as long as possible, the industry as a whole could be in danger. The only way to free up the market straight away, making it more competitive with new technologies, is to abandon price controls now.
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There has been little interest from the media or the general public in National Pub Week. The very ordinariness of pubs is what makes them attractive to most people, so to try to draw attention to them seems rather strange. In folk culture, they are places of warmth and local colour, but they rarely live up to this image. People are now becoming aware that efforts to make pubs seem traditional are false and will never suceed.
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Many leading companies deliberately use advertising which borders on the outrageous, creating a sharp contrast with a generally rather dull product. In this way, they attract considerable attention, particularly if the advertising is widely criticised for being immoral. Even negative publicity about advertising seems to work to the company's advantage, fuelling even more public image.
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