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The e-commerce giant criticizes the law imposing minimum shipping costs for books and believes that it penalises French consumers The online commerce giant Amazon has evaluated
Two years after the introduction of mandatory shipping charges of 3 euros on online book purchases for orders of less than 35 euros, the balance sheet is bad according to Amazon. Frédéric Duval, boss of Amazon France, reveals that consumers have already paid more than 100 million euros ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App Store) Read more …
Two years after the law mandating shipping fees for books, Amazon published an opinion piece on Monday, December 8, 2025, deploring what it considers the disastrous results of this measure. According to the online retail giant, it has cost French consumers over €100 million.
For two years now, French people have had to pay shipping costs for online book purchases below €35, and this law has still not had the desired effect.
For the past two years, French consumers have had to pay three euros for any online book order of less than 35 euros. A measure designed to rebalance the competition between the e-commerce giants and physical bookstores... but which Amazon today considers costly for readers and inefficient for the sector. According to a forum of Frédéric [...]
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