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Originally Posted by barryem
Anyway it said that the bill hadn't been taken seriously until B&N shut down in the UK and that significantly increased it's chances of passing.
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But ironically the UK has not only left the EU, but insulted both EU and some member states directly. I can't imagine many in EU caring about companies leaving UK. Even some UK companies are leaving/left, or moved HQs to Singapore, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France or Germany.
It's more likely that from monopoly issues they are concerned about Amazon. I don't know what their penetration is in French and German (Both in a few EU and non-EU European countries, Belgium, Switzerland and France has French & German speakers), never mind other EU languages. Malta and Ireland officially have English and in EU. Amazon doesn't even have websites for them but has over 90% of English language eBooks worldwide.