A second-hand bookshop is a business, which specialized in the trade with old and used books. One calls the bookseller in the second-hand bookshop second hand bookseller. One finds an amassment of second-hand bookshops in book villages.

Against a frequent opinion in second-hand bookshops no old pieces of furniture or similar antiques are acted. Many second-hand bookshops offer beside books however also different old printed products, like graphics, maps, picture postcards, newspapers and notes or also handwriting, autographs and paintings. There are for example particularly specialized graphics or newspaper second-hand bookshops. Finally in second-hand bookshops with all Informatios and image carriers, sometimes also clay/tone carriers (records) one acts.

Modern second-hand bookshop - actually a Contradictio in adjecto - a business is called, which used on the one hand books, above all the last years, on the other hand new, usually by remarkable stamps than rem CCIT ends or lack copy characterized and specially books made for this book trade section sold. With the increasing number at new publications the storekeeping in the bookshops and publishing houses becomes because of the capital freeze, apart from the place problem, a financial problem. Therefore with books, which cannot be sold well, already soon after their appearance the book application of fixed prices is waived. The books are sold at the half price or for a standardized amount of euro-. On the other hand genuine antiquarische books can bring in a multiple of their issue price depending upon demand.

To the existing second-hand bookshop fairs as in Stuttgart the comparatively largest is in a defined area of a resounding floor on the Frankfurt book fair since 2005. The largest second-hand bookshop of the world - also according to own instructions 18 miles (approx. 29 kilometers) shelf overall length - should be beach Books to New Yorker Broadway.

For years second-hand bookshops ignore the 1990er increasingly to sell their books concerning Internet market places. Customers visit the more rarely, because there is the possibility for the price comparison in the Internet and one there usually also with seltenenen works (Rara) or Kleinauflagen becomes fast after which one in laboriously and pretty often unsuccessfully search must. Platforms such as Abebooks, the ZVAB (central listing of Antiquari books), Booklooker or Zeusman present the offer of many second hands bookseller against a fixed and/or a Verkaufsprovison, which can amount to 0% up to approx. 15% of the indicated price. On-line order goes out of one of the interlaced listings world-wide directly to the often small second hand bookseller, where and, if necessary with calculation provide the found piece, is sent away. That is important, because also ever more books with large editions are rapidly out of print.

Meta Suchmaschinen like e.g. addall.com, Eurobuch.com, fetchbook.info, Findmybook and others make the comparative search possible in the offer of many of these platforms.

Literature

• Bernhard Wendt and Gerhard Gruber: The second-hand bookshop book trade. A technical instruction for second hands bookseller and book collecting tanks. Fourth, of Gerhard Gruber worked on completely again edition. Stuttgart, Hauswedell & Co., 2003. IX, 227 S. bind. ISBN 3-7762-0503-2
• of beasts: (Article) second hand bookseller, second-hand bookshop book trade, second-hand bookshop catalog, second-hand bookshop fairs, second-hand bookshop federations, auction, auction catalog. In: Reclams special encyclopedia of the book. Hrsg. of Ursula lozenge mountain. 2. , improved edition, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-15-010542-0

Related links

• Connected German second hands bookseller registered association.
• Book history
• History of the book in Germany (1450 - 1900)

Second-hand bookshop-spreading listings:

• Alphabetical listing of German second-hand bookshops
• http://www.zvab.com central listing of antiquarischer books
• http://www.zeusman.de
• http://www.antiquario.de
• http://www.prolibri.de - platform in the possession of second hands bookseller
• http://www.mokkas.de on-line second-hand bookshop and artist-draw-eat

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