In its continued fight against France’s mandated minimum €3 fee to ship books priced under €35, Amazon criticized the measure in an argument before the Court of Justice of the European Union, Reuters reports. (France’s highest administrative court has sought guidance from the CJEU, which is Europe’s highest court.) The fee was instituted in 2023 to help France’s independent bookstores, which aren’t able to offer free or extremely reduced shipping the way that Amazon and other large online retailers can. “The major retailers are using their delivery methods as a way of creating a new type of competition on the […]
