The books have set record sales this past year and They have scored their best goal since eight years ago. When Gonzalo and Alberto opened their editorial, the last thing they thought was that they would get so much joy out of a pandemic. “2021 has been the best year for two mustaches since we started with the publishing house in 2014, we have billed more than any year,” explains Alberto Rodríguez, one of its editors.
Second and even third editions, which came out of the press at a good pace. “Yes, we have seen that in a period of two or three weeks we have run out of copies of that first edition and we have had to reprint very quickly,” says Gonzalo Izquierdo, editor.
From the fallow of 2020, to the good harvest of 2021. And it is that, as the writer Laura Fernández points out, “the pandemic has made us better readers.” Fernández is already in the fourth edition of his latest novel, published just two months ago. And as an author, she has also noticed the change. “The reader is much more open to reading new and different things. He needs another reality that has nothing to do with this one,” he highlights.
She has taken it upon herself to invent her own to escape the pandemic routine. And that, in this time, It has triggered the desire to read and it is that new readers have come out and a new vision of local commerce, explains Gonzalo Izquierda. When confinement put them on the ropes, readers came to their rescue. “All the bookstores and publishers have noticed it, many people read more or make an effort to read more,” says Rafa Soto, bookseller at ‘Nakama Lib’. The pandemic, paradoxically, has been good for literature and although 2022 is a game ahead, books are gaining ground.
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