Amazon has appealed to the highest court in France, seeking to overturn a law that would impose a minimum €3 fee to ship books under €35, Reuters reports. The law is intended to protect independent retailers, which can’t match Amazon’s typical delivery fee of one cent. “This measure will deal a severe blow to the budgets of French people and will limit their access to books at a time when consumers’ purchasing power is one of their main worries,” Amazon France chief executive Frederic Duval told Reuters. The law is set to go into effect in October.
