net bookn.1
/ˈnɛt bʊk/, U.S. /ˈnɛt ˌbʊk/ A book sold at a net price.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price > book sold at net price
net book1892
1892 Bookman Mar. 210/1 It must be a point of honour with the publishers of a net book to decline selling it to anyone..who is known to sell it at a discount price, otherwise there is no protection for those who..sell it net.
1893 Athenæum 1 Apr. 410/3 Over 71,000 copies of net books.
1901 Publishers' Weekly 16 Feb. 525/2 It is recommended that the retail price of a net book be printed, marked net, on a paper wrapper covering the book.
1907 Publishers' Circular 2 Mar. 224/2 Mr. Frederick Macmillan has good reason to be proud of the success of his suggestion, which established the net book here and afterwards in America.
1939 M. Plant Eng. Bk. Trade xx. 441 Net books were to come, but not in that way. It was Frederick Macmillan who was to take the lead. He wrote to the Bookseller in 1890 suggesting the publication of net books.
1959 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) 187 Net book, one which..may be sold to a signatory to the agreement at a recognized discount.
1991 Observer 22 Sept. 2/1 Marketing director Julian Rivers was asked about reductions on net books.
2006 H. Jones & C. Benson Publ. Law (ed. 3) 118 When the Net Book Agreement died in 1997, the Book Club Regulations died with it, since they applied only to net books.
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Net Book Agreement n. (formerly in the United Kingdom) any of several successive formal arrangements between some publishers and booksellers, binding the latter not to sell below the net price, and in some instances enabling libraries to purchase new books at a set discount; abbreviated NBA.
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1906 N. Amer. Rev. 7 Dec. 1191 A few years ago there was a crisis in the English bookselling trade... A remedy was found in the Net-book Agreement of 1899.
1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 105 Net book agreement, an agreement drawn up in 1929..between the Publishers' Association, the Booksellers' Association, and the Library Association, enabling rate-supported libraries and other libraries..to receive a discount of 10 per cent on all new books purchased.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 274/2 The 1901 Net Book Agreement, now replaced, was based on the right of the Publishers Association to act on behalf of its publisher members in ensuring that the conditions of supply of net books were observed.
2002 H. Jones & C. Benson Publishing Law (ed. 2) ii. v. 120 The Net Book Agreement died in 1997.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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