France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
France has a long history of attempting to protect its cultural industries, including film and publishing.<p>It&#x27;s not wrong. There are other things that are important aside from customer purchasing power.<p>Amazon is using its economies of scale to drive out smaller businesses. It is not unique in that. But the industries that Amazon affects may be unique to the nations that wish to preserve them.<p>Most centralization incrementally kills local industry, including the local culture industry. TV, railroads, chain stores, Wal-mart, you name it -- they are all killing something local.