This Lisbon shop has a message for book lovers
By James Herring on Sunday, January 26, 2025
A book shop in Lisbon, Salted Books, has a message for customers calling for support of high street bookshops and independent stores.
Books from the store, founded by Alexandre Holder, come in a bag bearing the slogan ‘Buy books from bookshops, not a billionaire.’
According to The Independent ‘Amazon has always been renowned for their frequent cheap book sales and bargains, but not many people know the true cost of these deals. To put it into perspective, since Amazon’s arrival in 1995, the number of independent bookstores has decreased by 63.2%.’
A post from the store Instagram reads ‘We know this sentence can read a little awkwardly, your brain wants to finish it with ‘billionaires’. Plural. But here’s the thing, there is only one company making billions from books. And it’s not us or your local bookshop. It’s not even your local chain store. So forgive us the awkward syntax. Makes a great bag though right?’
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