In the event of confinement on weekends, bookstores may remain open on Saturdays and Sundays between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., specifies a decree published on Friday in the Official Journal, when the cities of Nice and Dunkirk are experiencing their first weekends confined.
The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot "welcomed" this government decision.
“Bookstores are essential businesses.
There was never any doubt.
During the second confinement, the possibility of click-and-go and the free shipping costs of books offered to booksellers made it possible to maintain their activity, ”she told AFP.
This decree comes in a context of resumption of the epidemic linked to Covid-19 and as the government is considering possible new restrictions in twenty departments covering Paris, Lyon and Marseille, where cases of coronavirus threaten to flare up.
During the lockdown in November, bookstores were authorized to sell on their doorstep books reserved by customers in "click and collect".
But they could not receive the public, because not considered essential.
A measure that had been unanimously denounced by bookstores, writers and publishers.
