a)
Wimbauer suffering
We know about the daily lives of colleagues Wimbauer very well informed. Because he himself is to blame, their Twitter posts, he is often busy and into the net and his website is eloquent testimony of a poetic soul who can it get through the terrible routine of everyday life antiquarian. With him I always think of the bellflower, which has won our court despite concrete slabs composite abomination between the joints. Or the life sentences of Mozart scores rehearsed in his cell. Why do people live
against better knowledge, against all reason, with stable Imzaumhalten her soul and her spirit in the middle of the antiquarian Alltagsfron?
There are different forms of hiding, the lamination, which are all survival skills in the gruesome. Currency is not only the infinite sadness of the routine work of our industry have to admit. Plocher is making literary-poetic excursions, RFMeyer other hand, is set rather philosophical and historical. One can prove as Hohmann as a professional of high caliber in the selected core area in its Case, the economics and business administration, or the pace off a little universe engumgrenzten area of life, and the railway Dumjahn show us how.
Wimbauer told me months ago with my friendly as always somewhat tactless question that he probably felt at his day job as the sparrow in the clover. None of my colleagues has complained of even remotely his drudgery. That I will not in the head.
b)
Wölkis wife team
It is good form, amongst his colleagues not to speak of him. I think this is a mistake, because we could learn a lot from what he did right, even more certainly from his mistakes. He had, we remember set as the first large groups of housewives, students and other non-position most vulnerable to the contemporary series processing of books for lower and middle class. Thus came in waves, thousands of low-cost connections to ZVAB, my colleagues could not enjoy it.
Wölki had recognized that some routine work in the bookseller is to delegate very well, if one wants to. In parentheses it should be noted that all this took place before the w + h-times, and every title had to be re-entered one who should be offering.
I am against women in the course of a long life, which all too often turned almost exclusively to these remarkable creatures has become very realistic and skeptical. There is a need for me no confirmation if the labor theory tells us that women serve certain routine work the better and more reliable, more mindless it, these works are by nature. The woman is in this sense, the ideal Titelaufnehmer, Buchbeschreiber, book scanner. No, dear colleague from Kiel, I do not mean that pejoratively. It just is.
Here is the deepest reason for the fatal torture, the subjects, the mean antiquarian when he made average songs recorded - it is against the male nature completely. He may live far less well than any woman in parallel worlds, and while he title records unravels think of other things to put yourself in second life worlds. He is focused, which is often rather his weakness than his strength, only one, of what he wants to do with all your senses and do without distraction must.
c)
From Edelantiquarat the box slide - no connection
Let us be clear: It is a wonderful, worthwhile thing to interesting books, more complicated or even simple problems of intellectual history, aesthetic graphics, concealed authors to devote demanding professional customers. Who does not like, do not feel comfortable au fond, if pending work of this kind, who missed his calling and may flee the bookseller like the plague.
This does not mean that one can always have. The happiest are the Tinker colleagues in their field, the naive, who throw themselves into the fray despite their good faith ignorance of the issues and problems that amateurs in the best sense if they only have a genuine interest in the world of antiquarian book trade.
the top, the precious area of our industry are works of this kind of course. The antique dealer fights with hand library, internet and much own feeling by a number not more expensive, but interesting title - and is happy there. Profession and vocation, passion and skills match, just us in übliche Halbgebildeten, die vielen Abbrecher aus dem Unibereich, die Autodidakten auch aus Volksschule und Gewerbe, sie können ihr breites, aber fragmentarisches Wissen gut zum Einsatz bringen. In dieser Hinsicht wenigstens: Heile Welt des Edelantiquariats!
In the very bottom of Wölkis Women scurry out happily alone or with others before him. You will often not even imagine what they are missing, for her books are quite interesting objects, which are rarely read, but exactly bibliography, pricing and the shelf position. This surprisingly large underclass of second hand bookshops is towards the top - even to the center - completely sealed off. Even medium-sized counterparts usually do not know what goes on there. Back to Wimbauer. He has, I guess the times into the blue, on nine ordinary, by the technique her die boring, sub-and medium-priced books one, only one that even a very small intellectual performance required of him beyond Wölkis Kuhwiese. Otherwise, it is important to accurately without mistakes or misjudgments, but also imposed ban inhaltsbezogenem thought to work through the nine other titles.
This Fron, which determines the life of the average antique dealer is largely like the precious antiquarian completely foreign to the lower antiquarian, however, they see for granted.
we want to annotate that there may be, as I understand about 100 and about 200 lower noble booksellers booksellers. The rest, say about 500 booksellers are medium-sized counterparts. Also because of these imbalances in the type distribution, it is necessary to speak to the weal and woe of the average second hand bookshops.
d)
A second cooperative, facing Neubuchhandel
I had thought many years ago, a cooperative in the bookseller not only for the acquisition of ZVAB. We got through Plurabelle and the then little-known Yahoo Groups in U.S. happens only very vague information, enter a new cooperative of booksellers in the UK and the USA - Tomfolio had had a lead time of no more than 3 months ahead of us. None of us knew what we take from there, we could learn something. Alt68er as it always seemed to me obvious that a comprehensive professional organization should be planned on a social, cooperative basis, my role model was the Swiss Dutton and his Migros.
Today we know more. From all sides we have been robbed in the middle bookseller our independence, we run across Gängelbändern are dependent on the mercy of private service, I need the misery is not to lecture here. I want to a whole new way of thinking beyond where I invite you to participate.
How about if we go back to the present situation one would look very far into the adjacent section of our industry, over to the new-book dealers in the last century?
e)
Grosso The House of booksellers as a task of a new cooperative
It is, we looked it up to the discharge of the average antique dealer from routine work that is unworthy of him and - more importantly - could do a central body more effective, cheaper, with better promotion, faster, more reliable, even in the service, punctual and safe in the settlement.
The mean antiquarian, to concentrate his work will finally be able to
* his specialty,
* machining of medium-and higher-priced books,
* well-designed catalogs and lists.
* customer service and, nota bene, better
* purchase, which today is often lack of time in that country. This
anything can happen, when the booksellers set up jointly a central house, which handled
* Title in the lower and middle price sector
serially, stores and sends. This tactic of Neubuchhandel should be given that the individual retains his name antiquarian sovereignty - in track recording, billing and addressing of shipments enter the house all the way back Grosso. It works as it were invisible on behalf of colleagues.
View: Every 14 days
gathers books trucks, he also comes from the history of Neubuchhandels, the new title in the lower and middle price range which will not process even the antiquarian, to a large-scale tours. Bibliographic record, State information, property assessment, recruitment in the databases is for the Grosso house. It expects by computer every 14 days with colleagues from each depository.
And finally Decorative Wimbauer has more time for what he really care. And colleague RFMeyer his finest songs from Thoroughly scans yet, Zimmert a second labyrinth added to its website, along with Ariadne, Mr Plocher creates yet another Antiquariatsbüsi and writes the biography of Jean Paul again.
everyone is happy. One has only to start!
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