More books, and everywhere! This is great news for book lovers: this year, bookshop openings hit a record high across France.
A dramatic leap from the 2010s
Responsible for encouraging reading and the good health of the book market, the National Book Center (CNL) released encouraging data on library creation in 2022. The institution counted on none other than 142 new bookstores were opened, a record high.
If, in 2021, this figure has already risen to 140 bookstores, it is compared to the 2010s that this rate of creation has clearly accelerated. At the time alone From 60 to 80 bookshops were created every year.
Libraries in cities that lacked them
Are all the booksellers concentrated in the same places? Far from there. This is the other positive observation of the CNL: the rural and coastal areas of the western and southern face of Franceas well as peripheral municipalities of dynamic metropolises as are Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes and Rennes the most beneficiaries of this phenomenon.
From now on, there are bookstores where there were noneespecially in small and medium-sized cities. According to the CNL:
” one library out of two open since 2017 has been in a municipality of fewer than 15,000 inhabitants AND one in four with fewer than 5,000 inhabitantsin an often argued approach local service ».
If 2022 marked a record, the data seem to be green for this year too: the CNL announced it that in 2023 around fifty opening projects had already been defined.
Source: Madmoizelle
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