On June18, CEGAL, the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Bookstores, released a statement entitled ALGO MÁS QUE FERIANTES.
An initiative in which they invited a reevaluation of the models of book fairs and expressly denounced the intrusiveness in the sale of books to the reading public by other agents of the publishing sector, especially publishers, in highly visible spaces such as book fairs.
In the communiqué they did not demand the expulsion of publishers from the fairs, but rather the search for collaboration formulas like those already existing in bookstores: ‘Publishers must continue to be part of the fairs, maintaining a close relationship with bookstores through spaces in our booths for the exhibition of their titles, managed in a consensual manner, just as it happens on the shelves of our points of sale’.
