The Burgos bookstore Hijos de Santiago Rodríguez celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2025, synonymous with the oldest bookstore in Spain, with presentations, events and appointments with writers. 176 runs the risk of meeting with a closed blind and a “Cessation of business” sign. Virtual sales, large publication sales chains and illegal downloads put pressure on a local business, emblematic of Burgos, which has asked for help on those same virtual world platforms that threaten it: they have created a crowdfunding campaign so that small – or large – donors from all over can write more pages in their commercial and literary history. The heirs of that pioneer Santiago Rodríguez aspire to achieve 60,000 euros and at the moment they exceed half of that with the encouragement of authors such as Máximo Huerta or Juan Gómez Jurado, who have publicized this initiative on social networks.
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