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> More than 20% of the 435 million books sold in France in 2019 were bought online I am very surprised at how low this number is.
by fallingknife 5y ago
> More than 20% of the 435 million books sold in France in 2019 were bought online
I am very surprised at how low this number is.
- themodelplumber 5y agoI wonder how many of the hard copies were bought as gifts or purchased by wandering tourists looking for a paper companion.
- jjgreen 5y agoI'm not: French bookshops are really rather good.
- Bayart 5y agoDiscovery on Amazon is pretty bad. I've never picked a book there after having serendipitously finding my way to it. But I've done exactly that in bookstores countless times. The only websites that give me an experience remotely similar are those of old, specialized publishers. Case in point (in French) : - https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/collections https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/collections - https://www.droz.org/france/section/Collections https://www.droz.org/france/section/Collections - https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/29-champion https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/29-champion