"We have worked hard to support all cultural enterprises, to help people cross this deserted moment of the Covid emergency.
In particular, we have tried to help reading with support for bookstores, which are open in the red areas like the other essential services and I think this is also a very important signal.
We helped small publishing houses.
We want to support a whole fundamental sector also through the departure of a table, just yesterday we began work, to prepare and give our country a law that, like the law of cinema, made several years ago and then renewed, helps the entire supply chain. book: authors, publishers, distributors, small publishers, young people, bookstores, libraries ". This was stated by the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini in a video message sent to the press conference on November 17 for the launch of # ioleggoperché, the great social project promoted and coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association for the creation and strengthening of school libraries, from 21 to 29 November.
"I think it is a fundamental commitment that must be supported by a strong cohesion of the world of the book. No more competing with each other, but working with a single team that seeks to increase the number of readers, to encourage reading", underlined the minister.