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I have lived in France for almost 20 years now - and been a citizen here for 8 years or so. This is so freaking typically French as to be almost kind of funny.
Amazon plays the game and doesn't discount books by more than the 5% maximum discount allowed by law. So they throw in the shipping. The current legislature doesn't like this, so they pass an anti-Amazon law saying that they can't ship books for free. So now Amazon charges 0,01€ for shipping a book. (They still ship for free any order for merchandise that is over 15€ - and sometimes if you're "close" to 15€ they'll ship for free anyhow.)
France works like this sometimes. The legislators made their point. And Amazon, theirs. C'est la vie!
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