http://bookandbyte.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/the-bookstore-as-a-cultural-organisation/ Book & Byte Masterstudies: Newsletter 2.0 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bookandbyte.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/the-bookstore-as-a-cultural-organisation/#comment-38 The Bookstore as a Cultural Organisation Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:43 +0000 http://bookandbyte.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-38 [...] The Bookstore as a Cultural Organisation   This weeks’ Studium Generale lecture was delivered by Maarten Asscher, director of the Athenaeum Bookstore in Amsterdam, in which he contemplated the current position of the bookstore in the Netherlands. In his lecture he gave a broad perspective on the book selling business and at the same time he tried to cope with the pessimistic spirit haunting the book world. For one, Asscher does not believe the ‘overproduction’ of book titles on the Dutch market is necessary a bad thing, for a certa [...] [...] The Bookstore as a Cultural Organisation   This weeks’ Studium Generale lecture was delivered by Maarten Asscher, director of the Athenaeum Bookstore in Amsterdam, in which he contemplated the current position of the bookstore in the Netherlands. In his lecture he gave a broad perspective on the book selling business and at the same time he tried to cope with the pessimistic spirit haunting the book world. For one, Asscher does not believe the ‘overproduction’ of book titles on the Dutch market is necessary a bad thing, for a certa [...]

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