- Culture.The sector calculates losses of 960 million in Spain over the next month
The Catalan Book Chamber has decided this Tuesday to cancel the Sant Jordi festival, a difficult decision although long awaited by the majority of the sector, which has already paralyzed the launch of the editorial novelties planned for the coming weeks. The Chamber (the union of the different unions of publishers, booksellers, distributors and professionals of graphic communication) has decided to postpone the great book party to an undetermined date that will be before the "summer vacation" and with stops and signatures of authors on the street, as usual on April 23.
The festivity of San Juan, on June 24 , is one of the dates being considered to resume this event in which only in Catalonia last year 1.6 million books were sold.
In the statement, the Cambra warns of the great crisis that the sector is going through, which amounts to 200 million euros of losses , alerts of the danger that runs the "continuity of the publishing ecosystem in Catalonia" and practically forfeits the March quarter- June. He also asks that the extra 13 million euros that the Department of Culture will have this legislature be used to alleviate the effects on the culture of the coronavirus.
There will be no stops or massive book signings on April 23, although the world of books, the Cambra statement explains, "will not renounce celebrating an April 23 resized and adapted to circumstances" in the event that the authorities The sanitary companies have already lifted the current protection measures to face the Covid-19 crisis.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more- Catalonia
- culture
- Covid 19
- Coronavirus Special
- Coronavirus
- literature
LiteratureSant Jordi is still in limbo: "It's all chaos"
Literature Internet madness for the novel that predicted that the Wuhan-400 virus would cause a pandemic in 2020
Politics Quim Torra requires Pedro Sánchez to close all of Catalonia to stop the expansion of the coronavirus