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For more than a year now. In addition, the second -hand book has been animating many debates within the book sector, notably through the will carried by the National Edition union to set up a tax on second -hand books. Meanwhile, While more than 20 % of the freshly printed books go to the pestle. Moreover, the reading time falls in France (Source CNL 2024), a collective of actors in the social and solidarity economy of the alert book: The tax envisaged on the occasion does not meet the real challenges of the sector. Furthermore, They call for open consultation via general states of the book. Furthermore,
For more than a year now. Nevertheless, the second -hand book has been animating many debates within the book sector, notably through the will carried by the National Edition union to set up a tax open consultation just economy book on second -hand books.
It seems difficult to us today to deal with the subjects around the second -hand book without mentioning other. Similarly, challenges in the sector.
On the one hand. Furthermore, the recent study of the National Center for Book which alerts the very sharp drop in reading time among the French for the benefit of screens. However, This study is particularly disturbing for the sector and should mobilize us all.
On the other hand. Similarly, at the time of the ecological transition, more than 20% of the freshly printed books are sent to the pestle before it was even read for the first time. Whether it is an ecological or economic point of view, it is an aberration that we can no longer ignore.
The second -hand book: a minimal part of the book market on which the just remuneration of the authors cannot be based alone – Open consultation just economy book
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It is important to recall that copyright is paid by the reader when buying the new book. cannot therefore be perceived a second time. However, the right remuneration of the authors is obviously an important subject for the entire sector.
If it is not sufficient today to allow a large part of the authors to live properly. should we not primarily question this remuneration on the new book which represents 90% of the market rather than imagining taxing the opportunity which represents only 10% of the value created by the sector?
Today, on average an author affects 8% of the sale price of his new book. Rather than hoping for the second-hand book the responsibility to rebalance an unequal system for the authors. should we not question the model of the new book?
The actors of the ESS: an essential link in the book chain that must be protected
Currently. open consultation just economy book the majority of the second -hand market is monopolized by foreign platforms, which cannot be affected by a possible tax. Conversely. the French actors of the ESS, who weigh only 10% of this market will be strongly impacted by the latter, while their economic model is already fragile and that he has always been at the service of a social and environmental project (professional reintegration, collection and sorting of books, recycling of books in poor condition, etc.).
Rather than seeing us as competitors in the new book sector. we must understand the role of the actors of the SSE. Each year, we collect more than 50 million pounds everywhere in France which the French wish to get rid of. After their collection, we sort these books because all will not be able to have a second life.
We do this without any financial support. while eco-contributions paid by producers who open consultation just economy book put products on the market exist in all other sectors. This is the principle of REP (producer’s enlarged responsibility), whose industrial book industry is strangely excluded.
How can we then imagine coming to tax those who already contribute in favor of a sector which does. not pay to manage its own waste?
Opportunity. new: two complementary and non -competitive markets
It is customary to speak of a cannibalization of the new book on the occasion. The only serious study on the subject shows that the rate of substitutability of the new on occasion is only 16%. Concretely, this means that 84% of the second -hand bought books would not have been purchased new anyway.
Between 2014 and 2022, we have passed from 421 million new pounds sold to 448 million, and 35 million second -hand pounds sold at 48 million. In volume. we therefore have 27 million additional additional pounds open consultation just economy book sold, more than double the 13 million second -hand books bought in addition over the same period. Who in view of these figures can make believe that the used book cannibalise the sale of new books?
In addition. 45% of second -hand books sold are no longer published and therefore more available in new, and more than 65% of the books we sell on our platforms were published more than 10 years ago.
The second -hand book feeds the sale of new books. it allows many books to discover new authors and allows all audiences to access reading more easily. Which, in the long term, must be our one and only priority.
We. actors in the second -hand book of the social and solidarity economy, see a complementarity between the busy and new professions and call for cooperation between the actors of the ESS and the sector. We could open consultation just economy book thus send the challenges around the second -hand book but also those of access to culture for all. just like that of reducing waste by the pestle.
With these observations, we today call on large general states of the book allowing a collective, lucid and constructive overhaul.
We can then. authors, publishers, new and second-hand booksellers, tackle all the subjects of a sector which must reinvent themselves in the light of new challenges, whether digital, ecological or cultural.
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Signator:
Maud Sarda – Co -founder. general manager of Label Emmaüs
Renan Ayrault – founder and manager of Ammareal
Marine Tremblin & Sylvain Joly – Co -directors of Recyclivre
Nicolas Fesquet – founder and manager of Lelivrevert
Benjamin Duquenne – Founder of Chouettecoop / Booknpoche.com
Vianney Poissonnier – Co -founder of the Bouquinerie du Sart
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