Kindle Unlimited, the “Netflix of the book” Amazon is not in accordance with French law … – LSA

Unlimited access to 700,000 books, all for 9.99 euros per month. This is the “Kindle Unlimited” service launched in December 2014 by Amazon. The equivalent for the book in the video from Netflix or Spotify in music. Problem: in France it does not pass. The Minister of Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin, said that Amazon will “to comply with the law” French subscription Practice for unlimited playback of digital books, in an interview with BBC this Thursday, February 19, 2015.

The Minister of Culture had seized at the launch of the service in December, the mediator of the book, Laurence Engel, who wrote a report. “The opinion shows that the law on the book price is not incompatible with a subscription, but all subscription offers currently on the market are not in accordance with the legal framework “, added Fleur Pellerin. “The main principle is that the publisher must fix itself the price of its offer . From this point of view, unlimited flat-rate subscriptions that concern several editors do not respect the law” she said.

Three months to comply

Now, specifically, Laurence Engel will arrange a reconciliation between the various parties. Services that offer this type of offers (in addition to Amazon, there are sites like YouScribe and YouBoox) then have three months to comply with French law. However, given that the law empowers publishers to fix the price of the book to the unit, it is difficult to imagine making it compatible service that provides access to the contents unlimited … Joint LSA, Amazon France “regrets this interpretation of the law that could prevent French readers to discover new French authors and French authors and publishers to take full advantage of this unique opportunity.” The site reminding -but pass without giving encryption that “the home of the Kindle Unlimited has been very positive in France.”