The French government has successfully passed an “anti-Amazon” law that prevents booksellers, mainly Amazon, from offering 5% discounts on books and free shipping, The Wall Street Journal reports. The law, meant to protect local bookstores from the giant retail store, isn’t necessarily scaring Amazon, which has already found a clever way of trolling the government — it’s […]
Frances anti-Amazon law prohibiting free shipping and discounts has now gone into effect, and Amazon quickly announced that it had conformed — technically. Though it no longer ships books for free, it only charges 0.01 euro, conforming to the letter if not the spirit of the law (French Prime members still receive free book shipping). […]
We have some more rogue emails following the familiar pattern of the last few days – this time around, a fake Quickbooks themed email which promises “free shipping for Quickbooks customers”: Click to Enlarge It points to a website that shows the end-user a “connecting to server” message, eventually redirecting to an IP address that […]
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