France bans online book retailers from free delivery—Amazon now charges a penny
Found on Ars Technica on Saturday, 12 July 2014
The governing body voted in favor of a proposed law to ban major online book retailers—including Amazon and the French retailer FNAC—from offering free delivery on book orders.
"We have therefore fixed delivery costs at one centime per order [0.01 Euros, or less than a single US penny] containing books and dispatched by Amazon to systematically guarantee the lowest price for your book orders."
Looks like politicians didn't think this through at all. Like many other things.