Publishers pull out of the net book agreement:

Publishers pull out of the net book agreement:; b)C4N: (Levinson,Steve)ENGLAND: London: Malet St: Dillons bookshop:LS People browsing in cookery section TRACK FORWARD to next section LMS People towards MS Woman flicking thru book CS Pages of book as it is flicked thru MS Woman flicking thru book (last 5 shots = 20 secs) GV Bargain section of bookstore CS Hands flicking thru reduced book PULL OUT to woman reading it CMS Stephen Dunn (Marketing Director, Dillons) intvwd SOT - cut-pricing certain books or doing marketing activity helps to sell more, we can double the sales MS Hanging poster for the new Stephen King novel TILT DOWN to display of Stephen King books TCS Book display PAN R-L CMS Steve Levinson i/c SOT Chipping Norton: LMS Book shop window as Elizabeth Sleight (Independent bookseller) inside changing display CS SIDE 'Wilbur Smith' book put in window London: Vauxhall Bridge Road:CMS Tim Godfray (The Booksellers Association) intvwd SOT - a price war will favour the large book sellers, small ones won't be able to compete with the supermarkets, and although best sellers may come down in price, other ones will go up and there may be a reduced range of books ENGLAND:EXT LMS Man towards down steps from entrance to Harper Collins Publishers PULL OUT LA CMS Sign above entrance PAN L-R LMS HarperCollins Publishers building TILT UP INT CMS Roy Davey (Managing Director, Harper Collins) intvwd SOT - we reached a decision recently that the Net Book Agreement was no longer tenable