2023-06-27 06:46:22
The e-commerce giant Amazon announced on Tuesday that it was challenging before the Council of State a measure intended to increase shipping costs on books. The multinational is protesting once morest “a severe blow to the French budget”.
Published on: 06/27/2023 – 08:46
A ministerial decree challenged by Amazon. The American e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday, June 27, that it was challenging before the Council of State a measure intended to increase shipping costs on books.
Amazon France files an appeal for abuse of power once morest a ministerial decree of April 4, which it vigorously fought, he explains in a press release. This decree, which should come into force at the beginning of October, sets the minimum rate of shipping costs at 3 euros for orders under 35 euros.
The government’s objective is to apply the law of December 30, 2021 on the “book economy”, which was intended to encourage book buyers to go to bookstores in order to avoid these shipping costs.
According to Amazon, the measure is “contrary to the rights and interests of consumers”.
Amazon says it ships “nearly one in two books to territories often without bookstores”
“It will penalize readers, authors and reading in general” and “deal a severe blow to the budget of the French and limit their access to books”, estimated the general manager of Amazon France, Frédéric Duval, quoted in the press release. .
“The online offer and that of booksellers are in fact complementary: nearly one in two books sold by Amazon is sent to small towns and countryside, that is to say to territories often without bookstores”, he continued.
Amazon invokes the opinion issued in February by the European Commission, very critical of France.
Brussels believed that the French government had failed to demonstrate to it how the increase in postage would serve its objective of “maintaining a dense and diversified network” of bookstores and “the diversity and quality of the editorial offer”. France, moreover, has not “provided an assessment of less restrictive alternative measures”, lamented the Commission.
Amazon says it is in favor of “the establishment of a dedicated postal rate, which already exists for shipping books abroad”.
With AFP
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