The American e-commerce platform, Bookshop, based on the proposal of titles, is now associated with two hundred independent booksellers in Spain.

A well-chosen handful of books can turn the course of history. Specifically, the history of racism in the United States, evident once again during the brutal arrest that ended the life of George Floyd in May of last year. At least that's what Kathy M. Burnette, the owner of a small Chicago bookstore, thought when a protest movement swept the country over his death and coalesced around three words: "Black Lives Matter."  So she decided to make a list with 100 titles that highlighted racial inequality. She advertised this through the profile of her bookstore in Bookshop, the alternative platform to Amazon that arrived in Spain this Monday. In one week, Burnette sold 10,000 copies from coast to coast.

And with it she fed the spirit of protest.

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