PARIS – Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant’s ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers.
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This photograph taken on Nov. 16, 2020 shows books at the Librairie Les Volcans bookstore, on the last day before its temporary closure in Clermont-Ferrand, during a second lockdown in France aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus.
