The online retail giant Amazon has announced its renunciation of free delivery of new books via automatic lockers in France, but this service remains free for pickups at the counter of stores that sell them. “We have decided, for new books, to concentrate the free delivery on counter pickup points and in-store entrances—and to exclude automated lockers,” said an Amazon spokesperson. As a reminder, tensions are high between Amazon and the bookselling sector in France, around the interpretation of a 2023 decree taken under the Darcos law. This decree, since October 2023, imposes minimum shipping fees of three euros for any shipment of new books, “unless the book is picked up at a retail bookstore. ” Amazon France argued that this provision allowed it to deliver for free into its lockers, while representatives of the sector, as well as the Book Mediator, an independent public authority, considered that the giant was circumventing the law.