I notice how carefully he avoids any separate opinion. Not even ironic-sly allusions, of course only for mature readers, he is struggling through. This is a shame. Neutrality has always been a bit cold, frost spreads, we will pull on gloves and thick socks. Comfort comes not, no sense of home.
We are grateful for any personal word that at least gives the comment section a bit homely. The time seems to the sometimes slightly unworldly noble booksellers to be reserved. We hear once more the blessing of the good list Märlein from work, from customer care and rewarding fair. The skilled reader but could do with such little sermons, if they do not belong to the noble booksellers, have no access to collectors of select goods, no due to clever customers who are willing to teach them ...
me upset the elitist view of such Advisor on terrible. The small Grüpplein the 30 tips and specialist booksellers such advice does not, the knowledge anyway - and the other 570 is thus more than helpful in the bankruptcy and Hartz 4th
We have our top people 30-50 very good training and offers contact, but for the 550-570 other colleagues, we have - nothing. No career planning training courses on a broad basis, no information and community services, no supporting measures. It is simply not enough if noble booksellers refer to how much time they have for colleagues when they are approached for direct advice, the problem changed by the fact that many booksellers for small groups, special small group, or separate Webbündnisse database projects regularly spend time and effort.
Thus only partial repairs are made. But no one thinks of the ailing car at last be broken down into its component parts, it durchzuölen to replace brittle parts to make necessary additions.
The situation in the German bookseller is known to the hilt. But as many booksellers an almost sacred awe before have to call a spade a spade, it is always helpful in a blog writer refuse collection management itself and another notes: Sorry, we have four if not five professional associations, clubs, small groups in our small industry, which - with Austria and Switzerland - is limited at Beasley probably correct estimate no more than 600 colleagues.
This is grotesque, but it could still be very stimulating and well-functioning, if not - a law the following series - one of these groups would be stranger than the other. The parties know it, say it, but only in nightly phone calls and then know the day - nothing more it.
must be brought Mr Helmer Pardo from Radebeul into play and joyful connection. In his charming, well written and heart essay yesterday he jumped over his shadow and has waived any theoretical analysis. For this he deserves praise, which is more than dampened by the fact that the nightmares and brain worms, which he has caused us so far with his people-and social-scientific rules, still reverberate.
Right now we need a good bit of market theory. For what Susan Halas us about "Better World" reports, is highly topical and groundbreaking for our home-made German concerns. We can, I think some Umsichtvorausgesetzt to take the "Better World" model in the German area. Do not worry, I serve now not a rehash of my "house of books", that would be nigh boring, but it arises from the grave - a renewal of the cooperative. Why, with what consequences, you should hear.
A technical note before. As I just now with pleasure the long - brilliant - had flown over article by Susan Halas in the "AE Monthly" had occurred to me that I must always find the edge, but it never quite dare to say that the vast majority of our colleagues will read longer texts in English is not fluent. It makes no sense that we delude ourselves as what. I can not stand to the death if we are doing so as if "you" in the bookseller after all English texts read fluently. Should I appreciate? 50 it can be smooth and without a dictionary, so that it is fun, the other 50 reference rather slowly and with some words - the other 500 have so modest reading skills in English, that they adhere to the reading, which offers us beasts, do not even want.
Knowing this - and Garbage PM says it - then it is no good disclosure, not to translate the texts. End of the diversion, back to Susan Halas.
spaces, we begin with some set aside specifically American oddities. In the U.S., we know that, with the greatest impartiality moral and religious concerns mixed with crude, naked business acumen and results of greed. The first is a U.S. citizen to not, he probably wondered more about it, if it is missing. German for us but it is always intolerable, even if only softly echoes of social engagement, religious or moral questions occur hand in hand with commercial purposes. This goes with us not (and it's a good thing). That is why we hide unspeakable delights such as "buy books do good" or "every purchase supports global literacy as simply. This part of the business philosophy of the company, along with the terrible anschmusenden name "better world" that we forget most quickly. That would create for us a sleazy image.
also seems the method does not apply to pre-ISBN books or engage further in any event not be treated as one of the priorities, as grotesque and unworthy Antiquariat. But even there you go to the U.S. approach is completely different, much looser. Approaches of this kind in Europe would be as funny as financially silly. It may go on in Germany or if Neubuchaufkäufer (in Berlin and anderwo) on a distance can only offer auto prices if they want to make via a unique ISBN value determination. Otherwise, however, would each, but each company must be really on the nature of the "Better World" with us on two legs and do, even at the pre-ISDN and the other on the track of the newer books to ca.1960 / 1970 . For practical, as well as for image reasons.
And a third one. The lively system of access to customers in the camp, a partial bid on Ebay, etc. does not match the German feeling ok. In Germany, one would - and rightly and for good reason - Setting up a very strict inventory management system to Knoe / Libri / Amazon-style and maintain and require very clear distribution channels and then keep it. To us the gift of the moderate - and working! - Chaos is not awarded, the Americans vorexerzieren the loose there with flying colors, even in its conventional giant antique shops.
These three points are to be seen inter-cultural differences. Otherwise, there are only similarities. Unfortunately, we are now quite familiar about the concerns of Susan Halas of the "cultural nakedness" which could all too joyous disposal libraries guilty, seduced by the offer, "we everything and fetch it "A whole string of scandals, some of the worst kind - I only. Eichstätt - teaches us: It can happen in Germany as well, but it is, and I now want to say very clearly allmal not the responsibility of. us antiquarians, to watch over the cultural property in the lower and middle area, we already have enough to do with the top product - oh God.. Donaueschingen - to keep from going under and us as intern teaching somewhat decency Cultural questions but must otherwise the libraries ( and the blog of Dr. Graf) themselves do.
Now we come to the core issue.
A system of this kind will be developed in Germany as well. I know that during my first performance of the model over 10 years in the Hess-round at KochNeffÖttinger that I had directly named as a possible carrier, expected by my project in Stuttgart and had come to the conclusion was: It still does not pay.
As with "books-Michel" seem to be archived my old essays carefully by agencies that do not mean that you take from such storage activities too much knowledge. We may therefore expect that the model in the first drafts of me as "Wölki model" means, at some point happy celebrating resurrection. Whether the a private investor (as in Berlin), a colleague (as Wölki), a house Grosso, Amazon or whoever crosses is less important than the crucial question of whether we could defend ourselves against booksellers.
If I'm to the part some hysterical crying and would loose some colleagues remember the occasion of our humble German Oxfam stores, then the same booksellers would now have sleepless nights for fear of it coming new entity.
think the thing I own for by expected, with the right buying sources and above all, very much German organization would pay off the new octopus and spread like wildfire. There are certain reasons (about which you should discuss urgent) who speak for the fact that the German Altbuchmarkt is particularly vulnerable to my old basic model, particularly if the priorities are different from "better world", everything moved to the retrospective and a will auction house (in network and / or conventional) attached.
And now I ask you to capture and dignified demeanor. We stand at the grave of an almost forgotten character and prepare for it, have it with all sorts of new spells to revive Cooperative, to get two and let you redesign!
There only one way to deal with the threat of us "better world" concept: The "House of Books" must be grounded in our own initiative, the sponsors can only lie in the hands of a cooperative.
The noble booksellers should not believe that they are of a privately owned Grosso home for old books could be damaging! Above all, there are the colleagues of the lower and middle class, which dried out and would be deprived of their existence. We all know how close to many colleagues now looks like the yield. A privately-run House of Old Books "would choke them with a slow off the air, every day a little more ...
I wish to explain why you can have the sponsorship of such a house only cooperative form: Before long, the house Grosso are in danger of affecting the interests of individual booksellers and the booksellers at all to interfere. This must then be complex regulations and trade-offs that may only be a matter for the bookseller as a whole. The board of the books so the house sit the booksellers themselves
This has to do with statism, or even socializing anything. Rather, we should look similar to a cartel, which was also tries to protect a market from hazards to steer him gently. This is all a little the rule of three, and anything but simple. First, the new house must be strong enough to professional foreign influences (here the adjective is properly called) to ward off. In addition to an already existing strong cooperative house makes a serious company on a second, she does it, it can be combated. Second, the new house all the booksellers of any layer routine terrible decline and increase the quality really, especially when the cooperative house occurs strictly as an anonymous power brokers. Third, not by cartel agreements, but by sheer Market power, some price regulations are enforced, which decide the booksellers themselves. Fourth, the private-and slow trading on the tax will pass at last fought well.
The new association must have a very low entry threshold, work completely transparent and are managed by a parliament of all booksellers. I advise the basis of past experience to the new cooperative but to institutionalize as a carrier to transfer the practical administration of the "house" but a club to respond to the flexible and democratic debate can.
My thanks for the photos from the operation of "Better World" is AE Exchange, where copyright
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