BOOK SHOPS - long-established and the most fashionable

This volume is dedicated to the 35 most beautiful bookstores in the world, which face the challenge of this era, e-books and online shopping, with economic strategies, style, and very different conceptual measures. Spatial concepts, furnishings and design are indispensable ingredients of a successful sales strategy for newer as well as more tradition steeped bookstores.

The old and the new, classical and innovative, giant stores and paradises in miniature for bibliophiles.

What they all have in common is that they create a desire for books and prove that the bookshop as institution will always fulfil a need and without a doubt enjoys a future.