According to the guild, the opening will not take place until they can count with proper health and safety measures.

It is clear, that because bookstores carry a chain of books, they are the logical link to start decreasing the pandemic confinement.  Their opening, according to the guild, cannot happen until they can count with health and security measures.  The situation that we see in supermarkets, with polyglass barriers at the registers and workers wearing gloves and face masks, will translate to bookstores in “two to three weeks,” time which bookstore workers will use to prepare this reopening.  However, the Ministry warns: “We need to have foresight, we cannot improvise.  Tomorrow Mr. Uribes will set the measures, we will be waiting.”

But sometimes those who wait despair and without a definite plan for funds supported by the industry, several private initiatives have been put in motion in order to fund bookstores.  The first initiative was the idea of Nordica publishers, who will give 35% of all web sales to a bookstore of the purchaser’s choice: Dos Bigotes y Barrett. Another commited Publisher, Juan Casamayor, from Paginas de Espuma, will donate on April20-24 and April 27 thru May 1, editing courses which will only cost the purchase of at least three of their books.

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