Books

The points of sale of books are not competing as much in price as in variety and services (in some countries, such as Spain, France or Greece, the retail price is fixed by the editor). Hypermarkets are selling mostly impulse and text books, they do not buy to small publishers and there is no specialized vendor than can advise us. Most bookshops besides vending books are cultural facilitators. Let us buy in bookshops.

How can we do it

Let us give priority to independent bookshops, the neighbourhood ones or the big ones that are not owned by big groups (even that there are less and less of these ones. For example in Italy 600 out of 2,000 bookshops are owned by some group).
Big bookshops have a good list of titles including books of small publishers.
Small bookshops take the books throughout the country and can bring us any title we may want.

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Data d'actualització: 10/06/2010 - 19:25

Keep this in mind!

Let us ask the editors to use recycled paper.

Libraries and exchanges among friends can provide us a great part of reading.

So that everybody can continue maintaining their role, it is important to support independent publishers and booksellers.

Information sources

Professional organizations: Associazione Italiana Editori, Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya, Gremi de Llibreters de Barcelona i Catalunya, Hellenic Federation of Publishers and Booksellers, International Publishers Association;

sector companies: Casa del Llibre, Icaria editorial, Llibreria Bosch, Traficantes de Sueños;

experts: Nichola Chalton (editora), Alberto García-Teresa (bibliòfil);

magazines: Delibros;

organizations: Greenpeace, UNESCO.