The culture minister denounced the “unspeakable practices” of the American giant at war with Hachette on the price of e-book.
Attacked by the Amazon American market for digital books, Hachette has received significant support Tuesday. The World , Aurélie Filippetti denounced the attitude of the American giant, engaged in a war with the French publishing group on the e-book. While the Seattle firm advocates for price reductions, a subsidiary of Lagardère Group (Europe also owns one) refuses to comply. So, Amazon adopted retaliatory measures against Hachette for example by increasing the delivery of his books and blocking pre-orders.
“Antitrust” . “This episode is a new revelation of unspeakable Amazon and anticompetitive practices,” Judge Aurélie Filippetti The World dated Wednesday. “It is an abuse of dominant position and an unacceptable attack against access to books. Affect Amazon literary and editorial diversity.”
A coalition of 900 authors, including Stephen King and Donna Tartt , denounced in an article published Sunday by the New York Times Amazon’s practices. “Authors who signed the forum are not all published by Hachette, they simply are aware of the public interest”, said the Minister of Culture. “For my part, I defend the ecosystem of the entire book, not a particular actor.”
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A law “anti-Amazon” France also attempts to counter its territory the group’s ambitions. American. The French parliament adopted on June 26 a so-called “anti-Amazon” law that prevents booksellers on the Internet to offer their French customers both a 5% discount on the single price and free shipping One possibility considered unfair by French booksellers. Amazon responded on July 10 by charging only a penny postage. “We have never said that this law would fix everything. This was a political struggle,” said Aurélie Filippetti in Le Monde. “We knew they were going to try to get around it.”
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It adds that it is “banderillas that we will continue to plant in the Amazon side” and welcomes to see that the union of the German booksellers filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. “This shows that we are not in the battle of Gallic village against the American ogre. This is a global struggle against an endangered ecosystem of the book.”
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