An Australian bookstore decided to no longer let and chose to declare war on Amazon.

Pages and Pages is one of the largest independent booksellers in Australia. The store said Friday they do not want to let it go by Amazon which, according to him, steal clients and deprives them of their choice.

To counteract the Kindle in Australia, the library offers a discount of 50 Australian dollars (about 40 €) every third Saturday of the month to all those who are ready to get rid of their reading light for Amazon buy a new to Pages and Pages. The offer still seems somewhat enticing a Kindle reading light costing more than $ 100.

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What’s wrong library to U.S. multinational? According to Jon Page, president of the Australian Booksellers Association, the reader should be able to have “freedom of choice ” and not the obligation “ read in a walled garden “. By this he condemned the fact that Amazon does not provide for its e-readers that e-books from its own platform by hiding all others. The Reader offers pages and pages of it, you can buy books from any bookstore.

In Australia, 75% of e-readers are Kindel and 65% of e-books are sold through Amazon. J.Page think the e-book is a good thing for booksellers but condemns threat to sustainability of these because of the multinational. “What threatens bookstores is a company that engages in anti-competitive behavior, does not pay taxes in Australia and misleads readers with restraining devices and false book reviews . ‘

This action against Amazon is not the first, a petition was launched by independent booksellers in the United Kingdom. It called the U.S. giant to pay his taxes in the country. Today 110,000 signatures, booksellers hope a good response from the government and actions accordingly.

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