Euro publishers holding off iBookstore due to legal issues

European publishers are deliberately holding off on joining Apple's iBookstore due to potentially serious legal issues, publishers said on Thursday. Where the US iPad launched with nearly all major publishers onboard, Apple's insistence on an agency pricing model -- where it takes a fixed cut but lets publishers set the price -- could violate British laws. An FT contact likened it to "price fixing by the back door" in the UK interpretation....

Source : http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/05/27/ipad...