French Culture Minister says Amazon Is 'Destructive'

June 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward French Culture Minister says Amazon Is 'Destructive For Booksellers' It's no secret that France does not hold Amazon in high regard, but now the country's minister of culture has gone so far as to call the website, and other online retail giants, "destructive" for bookstores. "Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, through practices of dumping, cuts prices in order to enter markets and drive up rates once they have established a quasi-monopoly," Aurélie Filippetti said during a conference Monday, according to Le Monde. Continue reading... 10 Classics That Won't Bore You To Death Women's Prize For Fiction Founder On Sponsors, Female Writers And eBooks WATCH: Librarians Set Book Domino World Record 13 Vintage Photos Of Famous Authors Writing 9 Weird Habits Of Famous Writers 10 Things You Need To Know About Female Sexuality MICHEL CORMIER The Exile of Wang Juntao Wang Juntao is one of the best known Chinese dissidents. Considered by the Chinese government as one of the "black hands" behind the Tiananmen student movement, he was condemned to 13 years in prison, the most severe sentence imposed in the wake of the spring crisis of 1989 in Beijing. Continue reading... SCOTT PORCH Jeffrey Toobin and the Future of the Roberts Court Although the two new justices in the mid-2000s did not change the 5-4 conservative majority on the court, they forged a different kind of conservative majority. Toobin and I discussed his books and the current state of the Supreme Court earlier this week by email. Continue reading... PEN AMERICAN CENTER PEN 10: An Interview With Masha Hamilton I've written on moving subways and in war zones, in cemeteries and in hospitals, as well as more prosaically in libraries and behind desks. Continue reading... HOWABOUTWE 25 Books You Should Read While You're Single One of the great perks of being unattached is the free time -- time that can be spent catching up on all the great reading you've been meaning to do for the last five years. Here's a list of the best choices for those blissfully quiet summer evenings. Continue reading... LELIA NEBEKER Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo: Prepare to Be Seized by This Book Siege and Storm is somehow even better than its prequel -- a feat I did not think was possible. The dialogue is so clever and sharp that I found myself pausing to marvel at it. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003