Dear books, open antitrust investigation

Following the alarm raised by consumers finally Antitrust, chaired by Antonio Catricala will hold a meeting on Monday ¬ to make a reconnaissance on the phenomenon has long denounced. The meeting will also participate Luigi Fiorentino as a new secretary general. In particular, we will set up a practice from the relevant authorities to assess whether the increase of textbooks in schools is not derived from specific agreements between the publishers of school textbooks. Antonio Catricala, as chairman of the 'Authority said: "Following the many requests received, the resumption of work, cioa ¨ a few days, we will take a pre-investigation to understand what is happening in this area, the offices have been alerted to check if there have been agreements between the publishers, but at present it is only hypothesis, we must deepen ". For the first time the offices of 'the Competition Authority will take care of this area and if there will be some evidence to believe that the price increase could result from taking action in the scholarly publishing, you will pass the examination informal a pre-trial and therefore presents an opportunity to start for the first time, a study of the typology of the market for textbooks which differs from other types of books. Consumer groups Adusbef and Federconsumatori have estimated, with the calculations targeted for each child of school age the average spending for the next school year, inherent in the textbooks that will be around 320 euros plus the cost for accessories (backpacks , diaries, notebooks, cases, etc..) is around 700 euro, and only for the textbooks there is indeed an increase of 5% and increased total estimated average of 7%.

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