Authors come out in support of high street bookshops Photo: Depositphoto.com Hundreds of Dutch authors and people in the publishing industry have rallied round a campaign to support high street bookshops initiated by Dutch literature marketing body CPNB. The campaign, which kicked off on Thursday and consists of ads in papers, on radio and social media, wants to bring home to people that despite the lockdown it is still possible to order books at ordinary high street bookshops. Well-known Dutch writers, such as Simone van der Vlugt, Tommy Wieringa and Paulien Cornelisse called on people to order books from bookshops which have now been closed for a month because of coronavirus measures.