Johan, the Swedish based in Pamplona who runs the Bolsabooks.com bookstore in Iturrama

The Bolsabooks.com bookstore is located at 28 Esquíroz Street in the Iturrama neighborhood, almost right next to the gas station located next to Navarra Avenue. It is specialized in the purchase - sale of textbooks, where the client can save up to 65% of its new price. At the moment it is high season and they have full work, a few weeks before the start of the 2021-22 school year.

The bookstore is run by the Swedish Johan Gustafsson, manager-founder of Bolsabooks.com in the Navarran capital. He is 35 years old and 'fell' in Pamplona "for love". "I met my wife here and in the end I came to Pamplona. I started working with Bolsabooks.com in the fall of 2012 and we opened the door to the public in January 2013. We've been eight years old now. We're super happy."

"I am delighted in Pamplona. I like the Spanish culture, the gastronomy, the variation. I love Spain. If I have to choose, I stay here. Every year I go to my country to visit family and friends. I met my wife studying here , she is from El Salvador, and we have a child born here... We are merging the world," says Johan.

As for the customers of the Bolsabooks.com bookstore: "A lot of students and families come, and with the service we provide they save a lot of money and leave quite happy. The secret is to have a good time at work, to have a dynamic, young, and offer friendly service. What we do is help families save money. It's a huge savings over several years if you have multiple children."

"We work three people in low season and in high season we become twelve. It is a summer job and most of the workers are students and recent graduates. It is usually their first job. We train them, we teach them logistics, customer service, work processes and it's a work school. We have the two universities nearby and a lot of people come to buy and sell their books".

The purchase - sale of books "is a very widespread idea in the Nordic countries and in North America. It is very common there in university cities to have a point of purchase and sale. The dynamic is that we receive the books in deposit, we manage the sale and once the client is sold, they can take up to 65% of the value of the sale".

"So between what you save and sell it is a significant amount. They can also buy it and save up to 20% and 40%, it depends on the quality of the book and its edition, etc."

"We are specialized in academic books. ESO, high school, University, language school, FP, Uned, etc. It is better to reuse books than to spend continuously. It is to give a second life to the book and you help another family to save Many people sell the books for the first year of high school and with that money they buy the ones for the second year and don't spend anything."

They continue to grow: "We have been eight years, we have created hundreds of jobs, for the moment we are happy, waiting for how the digital issue evolves."

"The objective is not just a business, since the traditional bookstore pays you very little for the old book, five or six euros for a book that is worth fifty. Our philosophy is that everyone wins. These days, mid-August, are the most intense. We have all the books from all the schools in Navarra, more than thirty thousand books in stock".

At this point in August, it's time to sell textbooks that are no longer going to be used: "It's also a social initiative. We don't know of another business that offers savings as big as the one we make. It's a significant saving and The bookstore also offers stationery material with an offer dedicated to the school world and we also offer new books. In Pamplona we are the reference", says Johan Gustafsson.