2023-04-21 06:01:52
Posted Apr 21, 2023, 7:56 AMUpdated on Apr 21, 2023 at 8:01 am
These are figures on which the French publishing sector has been predicting for many years. It is now fixed. In 2022, the second-hand book market amounted to 80 million copies sold – a jump of 30% over five years -, while 320 million new books found takers over the same period. last year, according to a study carried out by the French Society for the Interests of Written Authors (Sofia) and the Ministry of Culture.
Clearly, one in five books sold now comes from the second-hand market. In 2014, this ratio was one to eight. In value, the second-hand market weighed in at 350 million euros last year, a record and a level up by nearly 50% compared to 2017. This represents nearly 10% of the new market which close to its historic highs at nearly 3.6 billion, but has been leveling off for eighteen months.
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