Very highs and very lows, for a market like the book market which varies little from one year to the next (with sales at plus or minus 2%), 2020 will have supplied publishers and bookstores and to the readers… From March to December, it was literally a roller coaster ride, between nervous attacks and unprecedented heart attacks.
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First, there was this inaugural moment, when the first confinement was announced in mid-March: the government's hesitation-waltz.
Should bookstores be left open or not by placing them, like food distributors or tobacco shops, in the category of so-called “
essential
”
shops
?
Didn't President Emmanuel Macron himself evoke, on March 13, during a first televised address widely followed by the French, the “
essential
”
role
of books and reading during a period of confinement?
And his Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, had he not, in the process, hinted that a scenario of reopening
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