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Senator Laure Darcos said Amazon had made the proposal for a minimum delivery charge of 1.80-2.00 euros ($2.03-$2.25) when its vice president for Books and Kindle content, David Naggar, met Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot on Aug.

"They were ready to increase shipping costs to 1.80-2.00 euros outside of premium subscription costs to align more closely with the delivery charges of other goods on one condition: that we withdraw our bill so that it did not benefit bookstores," Darcos told Reuters.

"It was a wink and a nod." According to a former Amazon executive involved in talks with China, the company secured some, but not all, of the government approvals it needed to sell Kindle devices and e-Buy Books.
That situation gave the government leverage over the retailer, the former executive said. Amazon's public-policy team came up with the China Books project as a novel way "to get what we wanted on Kindle and other things," the person said.

President Emmanuel Macron's government refused to budge, and parliament is expected to pass the bill on Dec. 19, after which a minimum shipping price for Free Novels books must be agreed with the regulator before it becomes law.



Amazon's China office responded to CAC that "it is difficult for Amazon China to accommodate such requests, and we'll relay the message to" Amazon headquarters "and seek their views about possibilities," the briefing document stated.

'Even though the farm was small, my dad had the idea to treat it like I was doing a tech startup. This wasn't about ambition. Treating my tiny farm like a startup allowed me to learn about business and what it takes to run a real company,' he wrote.

PARIS, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Amazon proposed raising book delivery charges in France to around 2 euros from almost nothing if parliament withdrew a bill that would make it more difficult for the e-commerce group to undercut local bookshops, a French senator told Reuters.

MPS threatened to "retaliate" against Amazon unless it removed content and blocked a website it hosted in the United States for Guo Wengui, a Chinese dissident. AWS refused, the document said. But the company asked Guo to take an action that exposed the dissident's Internet Protocol, or IP address, and AWS "provided to MPS" this data, the document stated.
An IP address is a unique code that identifies a computer accessing the internet.

25 meeting, who requested anonymity because Amazon's operations are a sensitive matter in her constituency. The law would only increase Amazon's margins, company officials told the second lawmaker aware of the Aug.

'I've heard adults tell them that they can't do something because they're 'just a kid.' I've watched them want to try something and be told no 'because I said so.' And there's always the 'kids these days' insult,' he explained.

The summer when air travel was supposed to return to normal after a two-year pandemic vacuum is in danger of becoming the summer when the high-volume, Book Store low-cost air travel model broke down - at least in Europe's sprawling integrated market.

Some books portray China's battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in heroic terms. One is titled "Stories of Courage and Determination: Wuhan in Coronavirus Lockdown." Another begins with commentary from Xi: "Our success to date has once again demonstrated the strengths of CPC (the Communist Party of China) leadership and Chinese socialism."

Analysts say the labour squeeze may raise costs beyond the summer, but it is too early to tell whether the industry must step back from the pre-pandemic model of ever-rising volumes and cost-cutting, which generated new routes and kept fares low.

Despite being blocked from selling cloud services to the government and some state-owned enterprises, AWS has landed key customers in China, say people familiar with the matter. AWS's China business continues to grow.

Amazon dedicated several employees to the effort, which involved CIBTC, the government book-trading company, Buy Books which the document described as "the executing body from GAPP." The company planned to tout the portal to Chinese authorities as Amazon's only store named after a country, the document said.

And Carney, the top public-policy executive who then reported to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, went to China in April 2018. There, he told an alternate member of the Communist Party central committee that Amazon would make "every effort" to promote China Books and make it "bigger and stronger," according to a CIBTC press release.

A spokesperson for the family has refuted claims the boys had been trying to knock each other out of their kayaks. She alleged witnesses who reported horseplay to authorities were likely 'mistaken in what they saw or heard happening in the water.'

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