Thread: Amazon thumbs its nose at French ban on free shipping of books.
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Old 07-14-2014, 11:07 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Seems like a rather obvious response, no?

If you tell someone who WANTS to ship books for $0 that they can no longer—by law—do so (but didn't included any minimum book-shipping charges in the new law) what do you think they're going to start charging?

Did they think they were going to suddenly start charging whole-dollar/euro amounts or something?

What's next? Amend the amendment to the 1981 law to mandate a minimum percentage of the book-portion of the total order amount to be charged as a shipping fee?

I understand the desire to preserve the physical book-store culture--I really do. But what idiot thought new, easily-thwarted legislation like this was going to help them in that regard?
Obvious to most perhaps.
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