After the initial yes, France returns back to discuss the e-book subscription Amazon – Details
In recent months, we had told the debut of Kindle Unlimited in Italy and the choice of the leading publishing groups, who have not joined the service; after the controversy in England, the case erupted in France. The back is straight from Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin that instructed the Médiatrice du livre Laurence Engel to check if the subscription offers unlimited e-books should observe the current French legislation.
Amazon and other providers of similar services (Izneo, YouScribe, YouBoox) will have to revise its offer for all French works, but not for self-published books nor for those of foreign publishers.
Laurence Engel does not condemn the type of subscription service Unlimited , but stresses that the law provides for the price that publishers establish (or at least agree with Amazon) the cover price of the securities by subscription.
The opinion of the editors is discordant: the big publishing houses, in their great majority, refused to entrust their catalog of Amazon to use the unlimited service, while the position is different publishers of comics that are favorable and have partners in the platform Izneo, and that of Hachette, Editis and Madrigall who have reached the agreement.
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