Paris, February 19 (EFE) .- The so-called Amazon Kindle Unlimited, a read service monthly subscription that gives unlimited access to a catalog of 700,000 electronic books, gala violates the law, as indicated today French Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin.
“Amazon will have to adapt to the law,” Pellerin said in an interview with the newspaper “Le Figaro”, after advancing to the US firm have at least three months to change their service in France.
Following the announcement of Kindle Unlimited last December, the French Ministry of Culture commissioned a report to determine the legal reserve supply internet giant.
The study, coordinated by the head of the book sector, Laurence Engel, concludes that some of the current subscription formulas can have no place in the French legal framework.
“The principle essential is that it is the editor who must set the bid price. In this sense, unlimited subscriptions affecting several editors do not respect the law, “he said Pellerin.
Kindle Unlimited provides for a price of 9.99 euros ($ 11.2) per month reading 700,000 titles of complete electronic catalog of Amazon, which has 3 million titles.
France and deals another blow to the signing of Seattle, which already prevented apply a discount of 5% for its products in June last year, a practice that enabled the Web giant lower the price set by traditional bookstores. EFE
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