Kindle Unlimited, the US group Amazon is in the viewfinder of the Ministry of Culture, which considers that the offer does not comply with the single price law.
The group Amazon” will have to comply with the law “on his offer Kindle Unlimited, said Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, in an interview granted Thursday Figaro. The offer launched by the American company e-commerce rules would be incompatible with the law on the single price, registered in the Lang Law of 10 August 1981. This law is intended to limit competition in the retail price a book to protect the industry.
However, the supply of Kindle Unlimited violating this law, according to the Minister of Culture. “The law on the book price is not incompatible with a subscription (…) the essential principle is that the publisher must fix itself the price of its offer. From this point of view, subscriptions Unlimited Package which concern several editors do not respect the law, “says Fleur Pellerin.
Only the publisher sets the price of a book
Kindle Unlimited indeed offers its users access from a smartphone, a reading light, tablet or computer to a catalog of 700,000 books, including 20,000 in French, for just 9.99 USD per month.
An offer that is in the viewfinder of the mediator of the book, Laurence Engel, who presented on February 9 a report on the subject in the Ministry of Culture. The text “recalls that according to French law, it is the publisher, and he alone, which determines the price of books, either in-store, online or in dematerialized format. Now, Kindle Unlimited, but also Other offerings developed by smaller players do not respect the rule of the game, “says Le Figaro . Amazon has, for now, not yet responded.
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