Anne Martelle is president of the Syndicat de la librairie française (SLF).
She co-manages with her sister the Martelle bookstore, created in 1957, in the city center of Amiens.
LE FIGARO.
- How do you react to the words of Bruno Le Maire who wants the reopening of small businesses on November 27?
Anne MARTELLE.
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We've been waiting for this for a long time.
So I can only react positively.
Booksellers, publishers, authors and even printers, the entire book chain is just waiting for us to open up!
Readers need it: books need to be available again.
Since May 11, we have put in place, in consultation with the Ministry of Health, very strict reception sanitary conditions.
In supermarkets, we do not ask customers not to touch products - we take yogurts and put them back if we made a mistake!
So, I would be happy that we finally open the bookstores, but I do not want to be asked for more imposing conditions
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