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March 16, 2012 03:17 pm GMT

Allez Les Books: France Suggests Amazon Tax To Help Independent Bookstores

French kindleFrance has developed something of a reputation in trying to tax larger companies on the Internet to use the funds to help out smaller players. The latest development in that scheme: a proposal to tax large booksellers to help French independent bookstores impacted by the rise of online giants like Amazon.This is a development on a model that has seen proposals to tax online ads from the likes of Google and the revenues made from ISPs, in order to help out media companies that have negatively impacted by the rise of digital content.

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