ah. Between Zurich, Paris and Milan, train trips take only a few hours. Flights to Manila are becoming cheaper and more frequent again. But how the supply chains for printed books and the distributors for e-books work remains a mystery. In Europe, there would certainly be a market for Filipino books published in English – and a smaller market for books in Filipino, too. Why don’t online retailers in Manila ship overseas? Why is it so much harder to send goods from the Philippines to Europe than vice versa? The question emerges in a column that appeared in the journal WOZ on studiyo-filipino’s trip to Milan. Next to a heroine being knighted in the National Library in Paris. Which leads to a less heroic story: In Paris, the last German-language bookstore closed down during the pandemic. It has become incredibly complicated for the local Goethe Institute to buy books from Germany. When it comes to books, even supply chains across the Rhine seem to crumble.
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