France sets minimum book delivery fee in effort to protect independent stores from Amazon

Someplace between 20,000 and 25,000 shops promote books in France, according to the Ministry of Culture, and about 3,500 to 4,500 promote books as their main enterprise. Regardless of efforts to guard the e-book economic system, many impartial shops have struggled to remain afloat as enterprise for Amazon and French on-line shops similar to Fnac and Cultura has grown.