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Trying to make sense of this website, today I learned that Canada and the USA for example have no FBP (fixed book price) laws/agreements apparently. The more you know ...

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I was confused for a second too. It seems that fixed book price is more the exception than the rule. I just took it for granted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price

The entry in that table for Norway seems likely outdated, maybe someone here from Norway can update it?

> Law binding to all book sellers proposed in 2013, but unsure whether next parliament will repeal proposal before it takes effect.

I assume there's been a meeting of parliament since 2013

Sorry for the confusion, the site hasn't been optimized outside of the USA yet, so some of your results may be a slightly off in terms of pricing and delivery times. Working on improving that as we speak but I have to go country by country so it's slow going.

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