2023-06-27 06:43:00
Orange with Media Services, published on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:43 a.m.
A measure intended to encourage the French to go to bookstores “deal a severe blow to the budget of the French and limit their access to books”, assures Amazon.
Amazon is worried regarding a “severe blow to the French budget”. The e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday June 27 that it was challenging before the Council of State a measure intended to increase postage 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 order, which is due to come into force at the beginning of October, sets the regulatory threshold for shipping costs at 3 euros for orders below 35 euros.
The government’s objective is to apply the law of 30 December 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”.
“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 bookstores are actually complementary: nearly one in two books sold by Amazon is shipped to small towns and countrysides, that is to say to territories often devoid of 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”.
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