The sale of used books, in addition to its multiple uses and facilitations such as to allow the recirculation of difficult and in many cases unobtainable works, also presents itself as a form of “more ecological and sustainable reading”.
Agustín, the bookseller – also a lawyer and political scientist – in charge of Librería Pampa, explains that “it is clear that the reprinting of any work implies, in terms of sustainability, an expense in paper which derives from the processing of cellulose pulp of vegetable origin. The book used allows this circularity and reuse of an already printed work”. Which, he says, also enhances bibliodiversity with the recovery of works that are no longer republished.
The proposal by Libros Pampa from an eco perspective dialogues with the trend towards circularity that other sectors such as fashion are proposing. For Zachariah, if the reason for the propensity for second-hand were ecological, they wouldn’t ask him for plastic bags to carry the books they buy in his bookstore. And De Luchi contributes in this line: “I’d like to think it was due to an ecological concern, but I’m inclined to think it responds to an economic question”.
To this crisis crusade that combines the economic situation and the price of novelties, Juan Pablo Correa adds another: “Crisis of mainstream publishing, they publish books that have nothing to do with literature and except in some bookshops there are no novels that are not news”. (Telam)
