THE CADRE, OCTOBER 8, 1974, PAGE 6 " 7

No justification! for high

CALGARY (CUP) —--There is usually no justification for Canadians paying 8‘to

20 per cent'more for books

than people in the U.S.

says George Parry, owner- operator of the Laughing Rooster Bookstore in Cal- gary. Parry puts the sit-

uation down to the "colon-

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ial attitUde" American bus- iness has toward Canada.

"What often happens", he says, "is book prices sent from American publishing houses to their Canadian branch plants are immed- iately jacked up at the factory".

The case is the same for textbooks except they are usually marked up in Can- ada and the new price pen- ‘ cilled in. As an example Parry cites the Whole Earth Catalogue which has a $5 tag printed on the cover

but sells for $6.50 in Can—

ada, even two years after it was declared duty-free by an Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) customs appeal.

He states that book diSr tributors justify the mark— up by claiming tariffs and freight rates as the cul— prits, but, says Parry, over two-thirds of the books on Canadian bookshelves, are duty-free and it is the booksellers not the distrib- utor or publisher, who pay freight.\

The Laughing Rooster,

David Fallis Books, also in

Calgary and Banyen Books in

Vancouver all place many

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of, their orders directly ' .;

with U.S. wholesalers thereh’

by passing on the U.S.-re- tail price or close to it, to their customers. Parry says the three stores are the only ones he knows of in‘Western Canada that fol—. low this practice./

He feels it is in no way anti—nationalistic because a majority of the suppliers and some of the publishers in Canada are American sub- sidiaries and the Canadian lacross the counter deserves a "nationalistic" break.

Parry adds that some bookstores buy U.S. whole— sale but sell at canadian retail prices. -

David Fallis calls the

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: whole situation "obviously

ridiculous". He says that the ordinary rules of ec- onomics, in the form of tariffs, should not apply to books. . "Tariffs", he says, "are there to protect a country's own industry. If the country is producing socks and do-‘ ing well at it and another country wants to import them cheaply, a tariff is set up to bring them up to a com— petitive price. But in the book industry that doesn't

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your and Now thatyou have your degree,

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apply {since authors are internationally known".

He feels the present form of distribution through a Canadian-based subsidiary

" plant is 6f.little use

except that it creates jobs fer Canadians. But with ,prices as they are, Fallis prefers to buy from a U.S. wholesaler except in the case of Canadian published books.\ _ ‘

.Parry feels the textbook scene should be another major point of protest by‘ Canadians. Distribution time for/textbooks(which are all; duty—free} is hopelessly *delayed by the U.S. agencies in Eastern Canada which tie upsole distribution rights as well as raise prices.

0n the other hand,\Carmen Moore of Carmen Moore Books_ Ltd. says the price dis— crepancy is "one of thel many hazards of having 'a e 'wide population inia large country." ‘ l “

She adds that the Can— adian Booksellers Associa— tion (CBA) is gaining stren— 'gth and has been able to pressure distributors into offering a "more equitable exchange". " ;r A

Parry feels the CBA is pressuring in the right

_direction. Although the sit— uation is far from being resolved it‘has been gett— ing better. Mark-ups used . to be higher and some pub—

' lishers, such as Collier

and Van Nostrand Reinhold, have now started printing One price with"United Stat— es and Canada” on their books. .

:Parry suggests as a poss- ible route of action that students collectively boy- cott texts which sell for higher than the U.S. list .price./

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