Is it easy in major cities in Europe to find bookstores that sell books in other (European) languages? How easy is it, say in Paris to find Thomas Mann in German and Dickens in English? Or in Madrid to find Voltaire in French and Ibsen in Norwegian?
I ask because the Librarie de France in New York is closing up and it’s going to be a little harder to find non-English material.
In England, foreign language books are printed in English, but in a larger font.
You can get paperbacks in English everywhere, but if you want to find Voltaire in French you have to know where to look. The online bookstores are taking over the niche market.
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The ones I’ve seen have more space than normal between each word as well. 
When my son and I were in Switzerland a few years ago, we were surprised to find so many books in English in bookstores, even in the airport. We were a little surprised by the cost–16 dollars US for a paperback book that would have been 6 dollars in the US.
Most paperback books in the UK would retail for between £6 and £10. I’m talking here of the fiction sort. Of course, lots are now discounted at supermarkets so can be as cheap as £3 but that’s the lower price you’d be likely to pay.
That’ll be between each two words, I think?
Pedantically,
Mike
same situation here in Paris: the english language libraries “nouveau quartier latin” closed last year, and Brentano’s went bust recently.
so it’s rather difficult: “shakespeare and co” is a little store and with another one (I don’t remember the name) is more a used book depot.
getting books in german, spanish or italian is difficult unless you shop through Amazon (but this is a different story). I know of a polish library, and heard about a Russian one, there are also probably some arabic or chinese bookstores. If you are a specialist I suspect you will find vietnamese and some other “oriental” books (including armenian).for other languages (except portuguese which is the second language spoken in France) you really need to be a wizard.