The FCE celebrates the fifth laying of books in the postal palace

The Economic Culture Fund (FCE) stopped attending the International Book Fair of the Mining Palace – whose edition 46 began yesterday – not only for financial reasons, but also security, said the director of that editor house, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, when inaugurating Thursday afternoon the fifth laying of books of that seal in the postal palace, where it will remain until March 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We were pleasantly forced to find an alternative to our normal presence over the years at the Mining Fair. The origin of the conflict is public; Every time someone has asked, we have told it. The Mining Fair had entered a mercantilist spiral: it charged to enter, charged very high quotas to have a space and for the halls for the presentationshe explained.

“In addition, it gathered less safety conditions: narrow stairs, crooked walls, complicated evacuation systems, and this was not the heart of the problem, but the financial situation. In the FCE we sat down, we saw the numbers and said that if we agreed to pay quotas for mining installation, we were going to be forced to transfer them to the price of the books; or in other words, to exhibit titles that allowed their sale to justify the expense that involved mining. And we said: ‘No, the logic of the fund is to lower the price more and more; Entering that spiral is crazy ‘. ”

According to the writer, that was how the publisher determined to retire from that editorial meeting and seek an alternative: “And a strange situation was created. As in the background we are malignant, that is known and public, that we are not popcorn from Santa Teresa, but Zopilotes de Pancho Villa, we said: ‘And what alternatives?’; Then, wonderfully this place emerged (the postal palace, also known as the fifth email house). It is the crown jewel of the spaces in Mexico City. ”

Taibo II said that since in the previous federal administration they provided them with that beautiful property – located in Tacuba 1, historic center -, We have sustained the promise that we are going to bring good books and very cheap. Who passes here today and wants to buy a book will find that the variety of prices regarding competition favors us widely.

The general director of Correos de México, Violeta Abreu González, highlighted the importance of bringing reading to young people and the general population, as well as the advantages of acquiring books at low cost and at the same time visit the postal palace for free, which was opened as a museum since last November 12.

With the name of El Postal Palace thorough percent.

On this occasion, the Editorials Planeta, 21st Century, Ediciones El Chamuco and the Brigade to read freely. In addition to the editorial offer, there are artistic and academic activities.