Tuesday, August 11, 2026

🎨 Culture

How the French Read

Book prices are fixed by law, so a novel costs the same in a chain, an independent and online. The result is that France still has around 3,000 independent bookshops.

Buy your next book from an independent shop. In France the price is identical everywhere, which removes the only argument for not doing so.

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