The new literary season is bringing a smile back to the French publishing market, after a less dynamic first half than in 2021.
“From August 15 to September 12, 2022, sales of large format literature increased by 6.9% over a year.
This is good news for bookstores, in this anxiety-provoking context marked by a drop in purchasing power"
, reveals Guillaume Husson, General Delegate of the Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLE), citing data from the Observatory of the book store.
The writer Virginie Despentes crushes the competition, with
Cher connard
(Grasset).
His latest novel alone accounts for 17% of sales of new literature in bookstores across the country.
Behind,
The Book of the Sisters
(Albin Michel) by Amélie Nothomb and
Chien 51
(Actes Sud) of the Prix Goncourt Laurent Gaudé are also acclaimed by readers.
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For publishers, the literary season represents more than 10% of annual sales in the niche of modern fiction in large format, i.e. 50 million...
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