I imagined that bookstores after Sant Jordi would be an oasis of peace and literature, and I find them to be a whirlwind of boxes and delivery notes. "For us, Sant Jordi ends in June," Xevi Cortacans, owner of La Muntanya de Llibres in Vic, tells me, a name that has a literal meaning these days. Sendak bookstore also has a pile of boxes ready to return to distributors, with the invented books from the festival. "We return as many books as we sold for Sant Jordi," says Èric del Arco, partner of Documenta and president of the Booksellers' Guild. He opens the spreadsheets. "We sold 3,251 books during the week and returned 3,200. We had to buy 6,400 books to sell half of them." Of course, they didn't just dispatch new releases, but mainly sold books from their backlist, which he estimates to be 13,000 copies. Of the three thousand books sold, two thousand were different titles. Only of 22 titles did they sell more than ten copies, so 95% are titles that do not appear in the rankings.