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While the law is not specifically aimed at Amazon, Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti has singled out the US giant's practices in the past, attacking it for its "dumping strategy" and for selling books at a loss.
"Once they are in a dominant position and will have crushed our network of bookshops, they will bring prices back up," she forecast last year.
Jesus H. Goddamn Motherfucking Christ. You really think Amazon's actively waging war on your local literary shops? You think Amazon, the dudes who have a patent on one-click online ordering, are trying to corner the French market on physical literature?
Ah.
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Since 16 May 2012, she is Minister of Culture and Communication in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault...
Getting clearer.
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Her first novel Les derniers jours de la classe Ouvrière (The Last Days of the Working Class)...
You mean, like when people don't have to do shitty menial labour anymore because we've come up with more efficient and reliable ways of doing physical work? Anyway, also a prima donna author.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
