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http://latinalista.com/2012/05/spain...e-online-giant

Pilar Gallego, chairwoman of the book fair, admitted that Spain’s bookshops are experiencing “significant” sales declines and foretold that final sales figures for the first half of 2012 would be “dire.” Others are reporting that from March to May there was a 30 percent decline in book sales. Bookshop owners are reporting less people visiting their shops and fingers are pointing to one culprit, and it’s not the economy.

“Amazon is enemy number one of booksellers,” declared Fernando Valverde, president of CEGAL, the Spanish Booksellers’ Association, and secretary of the fair. “They don’t respect the fixed price of books and because of that we are suing them."