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nargun
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Retail Price Maintenance, it's called. You don't do it through law, you do it through contract, "it is a condition of [wholesale] sale that you agree not to on-sell this product for less than X". Or informal social pressure, or yakuza, or what-have-you. It's prohibiting it that requires legislative action. For a local for us example: https://www.accc.gov.au/business/anti-competitive-behaviour/imposing-minimum-resale-prices#resale-price-maintenance http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/caca2010265/s48.html There's bucketloads of formal studies on this and I'm not anything like an expert: short form is, it improves the positions of smaller retailers and wholesalers relative to large retailers and consumers. Usually by most metrics that's not a net improvement, but whatever. |
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Gina Szanboti
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@nargun: ^That sounds more like a law prohibiting markdowns. Here potato chips have the price printed on the package by the manufacturer (and such snacks are one of the few things I can think of that do) but that doesn't stop stores from discounting them all the time. |
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Shiroi Hane
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That's actually incorrect. The "nen" means "year" so shounen is literally "few years" and seinen is young years (literally "blue" years).
But it is objectively defined. It is the reason that the manga infoboxes on Wikipedia have a Demographic field, but not a genre field; there were two many arguments over subjective genres ("there's more than one girl in the main cast, it's obviously a harem!", "two minor female characters hold hands in one chapter, this is a yuri manga!"). It isn't all that important when it comes to bound volumes, but magazines have regular and dedicated readers who will encounter a particular title because it is in the magazine they read, and those stories are tailored to suit a specific demographic (sometimes broad, sometimes.... there's anthology magazines dedicated to pachinko and golf). |
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