The crash of tourist guide sales
Unsurprisingly, the health crisis has led to a collapse in the sales of tourist guides for the year 2020, reveals the magazine Weekly Books according to GFK figures. As a result, sales fell by 97% in April. After containment, the figures remained lower than normal, with the exception of sales of tourist guides in France and hiking guides.
The Rare Book Fair this weekend in Paris
More than 150 booksellers from all over the world met this weekend at the Grand Palais in Paris for the 2020 edition of the Rare Book Fair. A must-see event for bibliophiles with thousands of books and manuscripts from all periods and styles, as well as graphic works, woodcuts, etchings, lithographies?; watercolours, etc. A priceless written, graphic and artistic heritage to be discovered until 20 September.
Soon the national newspapers will be back on the newsstands marseillais??
After a four-month absence from newsstands in Marseilles, distribution of national dailies and magazines should resume next week, according to the online daily newspaper The Letter A . This crisis in press distribution is the consequence of the social movement linked to the Presstalis bankruptcy.
One of the world's largest printing collections coming soon Belgique??
More than a hundred printing machines from the collection of the former owners of Casterman should be delivered by the end of the year to the Solvent, in the town of Verviers in Belgium, the Belgian newspaper reveals The Province . According to historian Freddy Joris, quoted by the daily newspaper, it is the richest collection of its kind in the world.
