A bookshop is an endless ramble through written culture. Its shelves are stores of a legendary past, a complicated present and an uncertain future. How can we think about bookshops at a time when local businesses cannot develop and the obstacles to dealing in person are great? The closure of local shops, Internet sales, telework and tele-education have largely modified our habits of socializing, learning and consumption. In the case of bookshops, do they belong to the past? To discuss the matter are Andrea Stefanoni (writer and former manager of the El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop in Argentina), Antonio Ramírez (Manager of La Central, Spain) and Marilyn Pennington (founder of the Librería Sophos bookshop in Guatemala).