France plans to impose a minimum delivery fee of 3 euros ($2.93) for online book orders of less than 35 euros to level the playing field for independent bookstores struggling to compete against e-commerce giants, the government said on Friday.
have circumvented this by charging a token 1 cent per delivery. Local book stores typically charge up to 7 euros for shipping a book.
They added that France will notify the European Commission of its plan and the minimum delivery fee will take effect six months after the EU grants approval. It added that for orders worth more than 35 euros, online vendors could still propose a one-cent delivery fee. Amazon on Friday had no comment but a spokesman referred to a statement made during the lobbying phase of the legislation when the company said a delivery fee would be a "major" inflation driver andBookshops in France have survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a 1981 law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but they say the U.S. online behemoth's ability to undercut them on shipping still skews the market.
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