Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:22:02 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The French Still Flock to Bookstores
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM, mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Excerpt:
> The French, as usual, insist on being different. As independent
> bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book
> market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and
> for every neighborhood bookstore that closes, another seems to open.
> =A0From 2003 to 2011 book sales in France increased by 6.5 percent.
> <...>
> There are also government-financed institutions that offer grants and
> interest-free loans to would-be bookstore owners.
> --- end excerpt ---
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/books/french-bookstores-are-still-pros=
pering.html>

Discounting is also outlawed.

mjw