“After an extraordinary year 2021, the time given to reading has returned to more ordinary levels,
sighs Vincent Montagne, president of the National Publishing Union (SNE)
.
The French have found vast cultural solicitations, with museums, theaters, performance halls or cinema.
In 2022, book sales in France fell by 5%.
The two categories that suffer the most from this
"return to normal life"
are the humanities and technical sciences (- 10%), and leisure and practical life (- 9%).
Conversely, comics, driven by manga, and literature are doing well, with more modest declines (- 1% and - 2%).
The tourism and travel sector is picking up very strongly (+32%), but it is still down compared to 2019.
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