Amazon’s entry into the online book trade it caused sales to fall by as much as 50% in bookstores in small towns. This, coupled with the depopulation increasingly pressing and lack of young peopletowards the future seemed evident: the closure.
However, in towns in Galicia, Castilla y León or the Pyrenees they open bookstores and resist. The secret is that become the cultural and leisure center, contact the reader before the coldness of online commerce. They provide a service in places where there are not even libraries.
Thus, what today is still an old farm implement cabin will be Paula Vázquez’s bookstore tomorrow. In the village of Proendos, Lugo, it will be a bookstore in the rural environment that will nourish that emptied and also reading Spain with readings.
And like Paula, Tamara Crespo took a leap into the void by setting up her ‘Primera Página’ seven years ago. A bookstore that we found in Ureña, Valladolid, in an environment avid for reading.
The owner of ‘LibreRía la Leona’, Cristina Pérez Tejera, is in charge of searching and searching through her shelves and preparing by hand the shipment of her packages from San Miguel del Arroyo, also in Valladolid. And although she sends second-hand books, the walls of her bookstore also serve as a refuge for the residents of the town who sometimes spend the morning there, between chatting and chatting.
They are the example that there is no better algorithm than the criteria of a bookseller. In this case, bookstores that they know the people, they know the books that they have and can recommend them, that they provide proposals for adapted books, and for this reason, they do not fear the ferocious wolf of the big multinationals.
They are not competition, they say, because what they do is different, and because it is just as easy to ‘click’ as it is to write to your trusted bookseller to send you a book. And it is that no matter how empty Spain they call it, in 24 or 48 hours they are able to send the orders.
Source: Lasexta
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