The distribution business herein refers to wholesale and retail of the books, newspapers and magazines.

本办法所称分销业务，是指图书、报纸、期刊的批发和零售。

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"Distribution" as mentioned in the present Measures refers to wholesale and retail of books, newspapers, and journals.

本办法所称分销业务，是指图书、报纸、期刊的批发和零售。

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For some time they have operated a "wholesale" pricing model with Amazon under which the online retailer pays publishers for books and then decides what it charges the public for them.

一段时间以来，它们与亚马逊之间采用了一种“批发”定价模式。在此模式下，在线零售商向出版商支付书款并自行决定该书面向公众的售价。

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The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.

FORBES: DOJ Settles With Three Publishers on E-Book Suit

Traditionally, publishers have sold books to stores, with the wholesale price for hardcovers set at fifty per cent of the cover price.

NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

Once Apple and Amazon have taken their cut, publishers are likely to make less money on e-books under this new arrangement than under the wholesale one a price they seem willing to pay in order to limit Amazon's influence and bolster print sales.

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