“Disarm the Bolloré Empire”: 80 booksellers sign a platform against concentration in publishing

“At the end of the year, in our independent bookstores, it may be less easy to find certain Books. They will not be highlighted, neither on a table nor in a window, and perhaps even simply absent.” In a forum, 80 bookstores intend to boycott some of the books “published by the houses of the Hachette group, which now belong to the empire of Vincent Bolloré”.

They refuse “to be the propaganda tool of reactionary forces », firmly supported by the far-right Breton billionaire. “It is not a question,” they specify, “of saying that all the authors who publish with Hachette are far-right, but these books finance and arm, often despite themselves, a company which aims to destroy us” . Remember that last July, an action campaign “Disarm the Bolloré Empire” had already seen the light of day, at the call of environmentalist, decolonial, trade union, feminist and anti-fascist collectives.

Not long ago, Lise Boëll, Éric Zemmour's publisher, took over as head of Fayard, which now belongs to Bolloré. She rushed to publish Bardella and Philippe de Villiers. “It is the entire Bolloré system that we must be able to apprehend and bring down,” write the signatories. They also recall that Bolloré is the holder of Relay points in stations in France and that the SNCF and RATP unions prevented the campaign to display Bardella's book in stations and the metro.