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Booksellers say that people turned to fiction in lockdown – and book sales are up 4% on last year by Aoife Barry, TheJournal.ie.
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WHEN THE THEN-TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar announced from Washington on 12 March that the country was going into lockdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus, most retailers had to close – including book shops.
But the temporary ending of life as we knew it forced people to think about how they wanted to spend their time, and it turned out lots of people wanted to do more reading. Book sales are up 4% on last year, driven in large part by online sales during the lockdowns.
To see what that meant for book shops, and how 2021 might look for the sector, we spoke to booksellers.
Source: thejournal.ie
