Listener certificate

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Audience certificate for the book "Leadership Organization"

A listening certificate was a certificate from a professor (or lecturer ) with which he confirmed that a student attended a lecture by this professor (i.e. heard it) and was therefore allowed to purchase a book (co-) written by this professor at a reduced price.

Audience certificates were usually issued directly by the professor in his lecture or at the chair 's secretariat . The discount on the sales price of a book on presentation of a listening license was generally 20 percent.

In Germany, since October 1, 2002, the law on price maintenance for books has no longer allowed listening tickets .

In Switzerland, where fixed book prices were rejected by a referendum, professors' certificates are still common.

In Austria, price reductions of 20 percent are also permitted through a listener's certificate.

See also

• Books dispute

Web links

• The hand of the professor (article in the taz of October 8, 2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Chancellery BK: Template No. Retrieved on June 25, 2018 . 
2. ↑ https://www.wko.at/branchen/stmk/information-consulting/buch-medienwirtschaft/Erlaubte-Nachla-sse-beim-Verkauf-von-Buchchern.pdf