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Originally Posted by frahse
The French Do Buy Books. Real Books.
"Pamela Druckerman
CONTRIBUTING OP-ED WRITER
PARIS — One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what’s really happening here.
...France, meanwhile, has just unanimously passed a so-called anti-Amazon law, which says online sellers can’t offer free shipping on discounted books. (“It will be either cheese or dessert, not both at once,” a French commentator explained..."
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Perhaps the French should not allow any store, market or stall to occupy more than 200 square feet or have more than 50 different products or have more than 1 employee who would personally fetch, wrap, accept only cash and hand the customer their product that must be hand carried back to their residence. That would provide jobs for a multitude of shop workers.
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Amazon has retaliated by charging 1 cent for delivery. Brilliant move by them
