I’m pretty interested in German used and rare bookselling market. It has one of the most developed ecosystem outside of the Anglophone market, and looking at what’s happening offers a great set of data points to understand where our industry’s at. I was excited to came across a number of great stories covering the space in boersenblatt.net, a German book trade magazine. Here are some of the pieces I found.
(All of these articles are in German. To translate them, use Google’s handy 1-click translate bookmarklet. For English, you can drag this link to your browser toolbar —> View in English. Then click the button whenever you want to see a page in English.)
ZVAB:
- New pricing model
- Early history
- Peter Zylla exits
- Interview on pricing model, etc.
- ZVAB on shipping regulations
- Site relaunch
AbeBooks:
- New Italian site
- Reaction to Amazon acquisition, parts 1, 2, 3
- New pricing model
- Gojaba launch
- Market positioning overview
eBay:
Smaller marketplaces and services:
- Prolibri on shipping regulations
- Buchfreund pricing model changes
- Interview on Oxfam Germany used bookstores
- ILAB rethinking Rockingstone relationship
- Eurobuch redesign
- momox-books buying used books en masse
Market-wide news:
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