JEFF BEZOS REVOLUTIONISES AMAZON billion in 2013 , might be a worrying and unwanted stat .
The obstacles do not stop there either . French MPs unanimously voted to add an amendment to a law from 1981 known in France as the Lang Law , after a former culture minister , which sets the value of new books at fixed prices . All retailers can only lower books ’ set price by 5 %, in an effort to regulate competition between booksellers and to promote reading .
MPs from both the ruling Socialist
Party and the main opposition UMP party also approved a law barring e-shops from shipping bargain books for free .
However , Amazon recently side-stepped this red tape by announcing a paltry one euro cent charge for books dispatched to customers ’ homes . In another apparent snub to French law , it has been blasted for dodging most taxes by basing its French operations in neighbouring Luxembourg .
It is hard just to get a comprehension of how vast this group-wide realignment of its