Online retailer Amazon.com will pay 1,000 euros ($1,500) a day in fines in order to offer free shipping in France while it appeals a December court ruling that made the practice illegal.
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, sent an email to customers of its French Web site stating Amazon will continue to offer free shipping while waiting for the outcome of the appeal.
"As amazing as this seems, free shipping by Amazon.fr is under threat," Bezos wrote in an email. "France could be the only country in the world where Amazon's free delivery offer would be illegal."
The Tribunal de Grande Instance in Versailles, awarded a French bookseller's syndicate 100,000 euros and told
Bezos's email encouraged customers to sign an online petition supporting free delivery and linked to a Web site to debate the French law.
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