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Sell your books at fair prices and cancel free delivery. Well, geez, if that goes through you might as well buy your books at a local independent and promote social interaction, community development, and environmentally conscious consumerism. Ooohhohoho! I get it!
The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers’ Union (Syndicat de la librairie française), accused Amazon of offering illegal discounts on books and even of selling some books below cost.
The court gave Amazon 10 days to start charging for the delivery of books, which should at least allow the company to maintain the offer through the end-of-year gift-giving season. After that, it must pay a fine of €1,000 (US$1,470) per day that it continues to offer free delivery. It must also pay €100,000 in compensation to the booksellers’ union.
Retail prices, particularly of books, are tightly regulated in France.
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December 14th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Europeans are strict about this stuff. It’s likewise illeagal to discount books in Germany. Of course, the market is rather small for books in French and German.
But at 17 EUR for a new hardcover, plus shipping charges, buying new books at all must be a less attractive prospect.