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In this blog, the last article you read today, we have fought many battle. In retrospect, I'm on the form and content is not very happy.
Some actions have been useful, also had fun, as if it has the unspeakable mess and the clumsiness of some books collected data banks walked or when I had to complain about in my estimation as imaginary as uninspired actors ("I work with books"), on criminal missed opportunities, such as the fleet of the baptism of upscale, but now almost starved child of RFMeyerschen "supply-Alliance ", over the years, again in my estimation, at an almost magical atmosphere unlucky Related Prolibri database project, about blatant impossibilities in the industry such as the hide and get rid of the auction results with the blessing of a here not specified shall professional association.
There were also abound borderline cases where it would have have been a better, shorter to connect. This is particularly true of those strange ancient Judaica review Björn beast, the latter had even dug up and both parties were reasonably supposed to have passed over in silence. Other issues are still relevant and tick as fire-dangerous time bombs in the rubble that is the case for the Amazon Abebooks-future scenario, based on Germany, also for special topics such as legislation on juvenile pornography, with their consistent application still every other bookseller to days of searching open stands, or you'll forgive the simplicity of the consideration for the safety of future abolition of the book shipment postage. Before
I will file in the title promised birth announcement, I take the opportunity to an overview of the current situation of the antiquarian book trade in my view.
I think it was Mr Hohmann in Stuttgart, by the way a basic intelligent antiquary, who hides his lyrics but unfortunately, rather than published, the report clearly from booksellers who can not pay their health insurance. We have in all forums Mrs Rathjen of service that anyone can read, provides insights into a "ruthless world of the antiquarian book trade. There are representatives of our industry, the advance of recipes out of mothballs in business, see the fellow wine writer, to whom it right become silent. Business considerations are useful in the "used book", the most recent and most recent date and may be related to the stockings or drugs described and delivered. They have not proven otherwise in the bookseller.
Even more disappoint us theorists, from whose ranks have recently been expressed colleague Helmer Pardo added, it comes as I shake knowledgeable of the major-sociology, and so I can sort only the head and ask the theorizing in the style of his " participatory Antiquarian refrain, "My dear. They are wrong track, not only because no one who is not a sociologist to understand him at all can.
The real obstacle to progress in our industry is now open to light than it was several years ago: "Les extrèmes touchent se," the internal contradictions are dramatically large.
The small box slide, which touchingly tried housewife (not only) can be determined from the wild east of our Republic to easily "rubbed hardcover, of authors" in ZVAB reference to the unspeakable keywords as compared to the saturated, well-organized section examined colleague of the upper middle field . As a rule, intelligent, knowledgeable people with decent tax return, with his wife and child and several association memberships, well-stocked warehouse and hard-won Customer file. In that then the Olympus 40-50 top booksellers, which remain among them, and talk to the people of the ordinary booksellers only when necessary contacts.
What I list them here, anecdotally, has in fact disastrous consequences for the overall situation of the antique book - now more than ever before.
Almost all the work and future questions in different ways is for the three layers in the bookseller:
- slab slide, used book suppliers, mainly for the supply of such customers who buy the book from the property on her or as a substitute for (too) expensive Neutitel,
- All-booksellers, whether by charging and / or shipping, work the whole spectrum, thematically, the book value here, in terms of distribution channels, customers of precious collector supply to book cheap student
- Top booksellers, the vast majority of superior discipline and general collectors as clients.
This is obvious, everyone can come up with examples, and of course there are many intermediate forms and combinations. But what remains to be seen yet, the amazing diversity of interests when it comes to important discussions.
How do we bring together such different people interested for the purposes of the act for "their interests" when discussing a trade fair in Dubai questions or Zurich, the other sales of well-preserved Scientific works of the book on Amazon or company Booklooker, to 5 € to 4.99 € or would you prefer?
Locker vom Hocker put down - the phrase comes from the old librarian-standing chair and fits here - can be said that
- the top bookseller to their exquisite specialists and general collectors extend a very limited clientele. For they play economic questions involved: What is in fashion, how much free money, the customers it will make assets that are libraries and archives back to acquisitions budgets for expensive titles, such as the U.S. dollar, and the like questions more in the bottom field not at all interested in the central region rather little.
- the lower bookseller occupied with his worries us a classic antique shops very unusual field of pure mail order. Warehousing, purchasing, sales and profit margins have there very sober, be discussed very hard.
- the average bookseller, one is tempted to say, the "normal" bookseller, has a strange hold Spagatstellung. It has to take care both to the subject area of the tip booksellers and edit the lowlands of the lower shipping business with. to make
Who always tries so far, an action for "the booksellers" in the legs is more or less failed miserably. This is a closer look also for the - in itself so laudable - training trials of the Association, ridiculous of the "Chamber test" of our industry to speak. I also guessed wrong some criticism of the new concept of the exchange as a background paper had the idea that there must be a discussion of Frankfurt, news and educational forum for giving " the booksellers."
I also see in the now but really annoying and embarrassing fate of RFMeyerschen "site network" as the cause of the limitation on far too narrowly defined types specific to certain bookshops. That the cooperative got nowhere branch, is similarly well founded - that entry barriers had been set much too high, not only financially. And in the foreclosure of the association with respect to the small and medium-sized counterparts is a good measure, I believe, deliberate secrecy and alienation. Unlike some of the ILAB scandal is not explained.
At this point the considerations I may now turn to the promised birth announcement.
Formally this is necessary to find a lowest common denominator that can be useful, important and useful for all levels of our business.
We know that is deplorable in the lower and middle field, a dramatic sales weakness for a number of years. We are sitting on millions of titles apparently permanently unsaleable are. I am not talking about "Boehn, the dance," or "Ludwig, Goethe and other horrors, but by counting the millions from the ordinary mountain, not too often, in the middle frame is priced reasonably and sensibly described books.
Today, we can assume that the standard of suspicion booksellers, poor design and dissemination of books sales data banks is to blame for our not-worn mountains of books, no longer plays a major role. The customer who wants to find a title over the net, has very simple and quick-access information and purchase products. And that would rectify this, but central is the database question no more. Three or four years saw the still different.
We also need not necessarily better title shots, even photos / scans are from the time her little predictable and average product of limited usefulness. These are all pretty little things to calm and employment of the booksellers - - but no solutions.
core thesis: We must
general collecting old books on a wide scale, give great propaganda effort again popular, especially among younger people . Altbuchsammeln must either be a fashion movement "in", on the other hand we need a more thorough and deeper motivation scale the awakening of a people to "love" to the old book.
would like both I do not want to separate from each other. We must, to the repeating said above, do not be too good to encourage also "Trends" to a fashionable collection of old books same time but we have very serious reasons and motives D ear to give to the old book .
Here, we can (almost) no bonds make in the overall business management. Also help us to sociological rules any further, let alone lead us in times of perplexity always so fond aunt tried "statistics" as to the right path. We need an I magewerbun g, which emphasizes the positive, desirable aspects of Altbuch-collecting. This will usually be old, even ancient motifs that we have to transfer to the modern age in the present:
W hat please enjoy because of the collector, who goes out at night to the shelf and looked at his series of old books? That, sir, whispering some bloggers in this regard can be here for one good use - "shiver" of the collector with really specific titles if he keeps the incunabula in the hand when the island bands, the long-sought place? We will pick up ideas from her and about stamp collecting "in the name of the Rose" for ideas advanced Altbuchliebe discover.
It is, therefore, is Altbuchsammeln
* in all its values and subject groups, based on
all educational, professional groups,
* record and something to do about the
* living culture, the
* collecting, for
* free time.
This new bundle B ü Altbuch collecting images, we should now discuss and design.
If the birth announcement - to sales in the bookseller will be boosted by a new I mage of Altbuchsammelns . This can also be an image bundle, but must always (Also) carry a certain message.
thank for the picture, we are once again VS Krems-Lerchenberg that the copyrights belong
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