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Law Book Trade in the Federal Republic of Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Volker Schwarz
Volker Schwarz*
Affiliation:
Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden
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The Federal Republic of Germany, including West Berlin, has some 9,000 commercial enterprises engaged in publishing and book distribution. Of these, 2,268 are Verlage (publishing houses) located in 480 cities and 6,672 are Buchhandlungen (bookstores) in 1,585 cities. By far the largest number of the better-known enterprises are concentrated in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart. Most publishing houses are small to medium-sized. In 1975 one-third produced only one imprint a year. Three-quarters of all publishers produced between one and ten imprints a year. Only 3 per cent of all publishers produced between 51 to 100 imprints a year and 2.6 per cent more than 100 imprints. Approximately 70 per cent of all publishers have a yearly turnover of up to one million DM and 70 per cent of the bookstores have a turnover of up to DM 500,000. Some 60 publishing houses have placed emphasis in their production on works dealing with law and public administration. Between 100 to 200 bookstores specialize in the distribution of this literature.

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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , July 1978 , pp. 171 - 182
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Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1978 

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1 Taken from Buch- und Buchhandel in Zahlen. Ausgabe 1977. Edited by the Böreenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. Frankfurt: Buchhändlervereinigung 1977, pp. 44, 53, 54.Google Scholar

2 There is also an East German publication of the same name which is the official organ of the book trade in the German Democratic Republic.Google Scholar

3 Taken from: Buch- und Buchhandel in Zahlen, 1977, p. 40.Google Scholar

4 Ibid. Pp. 10 and 17.Google Scholar

5 Ibid. Pp. 12, 13. 15 and 18.Google Scholar

6 Ibid. Pp. 9, 16 and 17.Google Scholar

7 See § 16 Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen.Google Scholar

8 See OLG Düsseldorf, NJW 1977, 2169; KG, NJW 1977, 392.Google Scholar

9 Taken from: Buch- und Buchhandel in Zahlen, 1977, pp. 32, 34 and 35.Google Scholar

10 Ibid. p. 36.Google Scholar

11 Ibid. Pp. 69–78.Google Scholar