Malaise
Article reserved for subscribers
Bookstores are wondering about the position to adopt regarding the far-right leader's work. To store or not, to highlight or not… Between free will and threats of censorship accusations, professionals are divided.
“We got trapped.” The pill does not pass at the Au temps lire bookstore in Lambersart, near Lille (North). The managers, Mikaël Deren and Virginie Deschler, tell how the publishing house Fayard encouraged them to order several copies of a work «sous X», without revealing the author or the content. A classic practice for the most sensitive publications, which generally have good sales. But here, no investigative book by Victor Castanet on the crèche scandal (10,000 copies sold in four days) or celebrity book by Prince Harry (85,000 copies sold in five days). When the boxes are opened, it's a cold shower for the North bookstore, which discovers What I'm looking for, the autobiography of the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, to be published on November 9. The book is not at its first controversy, since MediaTransports, the advertising agency of the SNCF, announced on October 28 that there would be no
France
Books
Related News :