Bill to ban Amazon's book discount and free delivery to pass in France to protect bookstores

ByRyoku KASINN

Parliament House of France unanimously passed a bill banning services combining book discount sales and free delivery, etc. provided by Amazon.com, the leading Internet commerce owner, on 3 October. This is a bill from companies that provide internet shopping services like Amazon to protect domestic bookstores falling into poor management.

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In France, there is a law that restricts the discount rate at the time of sale up to 5%, letting the publisher set the book price for the publisher to protect the small bookstore called Lang's law. The bill that passed the House this time is to offer a service combining this 5% discount and free deliveryProhibit against all online book distributorsThis was approved by both the ruling Socialist Party and the largest opposition National Association of Motor Movements (UMP).

ByPierre Metivier

In France there is a very dense library of networks worldwide, including about 3,500 old-fashioned bookstores (except for publishers, retailers, chain shops, bookstores with huge land area) It contains. Currently, these small bookstores are severely discounted even for books. That should be that, according to the French government's survey, sales of books in 2012 are down by 4.5% compared to the previous year, and 17% of France's people purchase books from online shops It's because of the situation.

ByMorBCN

Under such circumstances, it may be natural that Amazon, which accounts for about 70% of the online bookstore service market, is regarded as unfair competition for French domestic bookstores falling into poor management. It seems that this bill was submitted by UMP's Representative Christian Celto so that a privately-owned bookstore can survive.

By7 soulman

On the bill side of the bill, the Amazon side rebounded against this bill, "Statement stating that" any measures to lift the price of books will only result in discrimination against net mail order users by lowering the consumption power of the French citizens " To AFP. As we passed through the House of Councilors, this bill will be discussed at the Senate next time, will the date on which this bill will come into force?