A
new law will set a toll threshold on shipping books, which will help
out bookshops in France while hurting big online book outlets like
Amazon.
Nearly a fourth of the books sold in France in 2019 were bought online,
and French bookshops have been making less and less each year as the
web ettins like Amazon and others take over more of the book trade.
France had already outlawed free shipping for books in a fand to shield
their bookshops, but Amazon got over this by taking one penny for each
book they sent out. This new law puts an end to one penny shipping,
making online shops take about the same as offline bookshops would for
shipping.
Amazon was worried laws like this might spread to other riches as well,
making it harder to do business, so they fanded to keep this law from
getting through by bringing up folks who live from town and could not
eathfully get to a book shop.
How much the threshold will be is still being worked out, but it should
be about $6 which is what offline shops take for shipping.