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Minister Accuses Amazon Of Destroying Bookshops

  • Delano, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:54 PM

France’s culture minister has accused Amazon of unfair competitive business practices, calling the firm “a destroyer of bookshops”. Socialist Aurélie Filippetti said: “everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, through dumping practices, shatters prices in order to penetrate markets in order to then re-increase prices once it has gained a quasi-monopoly situation”. “The book and reading sector has been in competition with certain sites using all possibilities to get into the French and European book market,” the minister was quoted as saying. 

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