E-book
| eBuch eG
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | May 14, 2000 |
| Seat | Heidelberg |
| Branch | Book trade |
| Website | www.ebuch.net |
The eBuch eG was founded in 2000 as a merger of initially 15 small and medium-sized bookstores . The cooperative is based in Heidelberg . The e-book is based on the cooperative idea of the merger of small businesses to form an external market participant in the form of a purchasing cooperative .
history
The cooperative was founded in 2000 when there were efforts within the EU to limit or abolish fixed book prices that existed in several member countries . The aim of the 15 founders was to equip the affiliated bookstores economically for this case. With the entry into force of the Book Price Fixing Act, the situation eased in September 2002.
The cooperative now has over 800 members with a total of over 950 bookstores (as of December 2017) in Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. This makes the eBuch the largest cooperative association in the German book trade . The external sales via the joint central warehouse of the cooperative amounted to approx. 120 million euros in 2017 , the total external sales of all bookstores approx. 200 million euros. The member bookstores do not act as a chain to the end customer. There are e.g. B. no corporate design in shopfitting and also no core range that all member bookstores (must) carry.
In 2015, the members of the cooperative appointed a lawyer as the book trade's price control trustee. This trustee monitors compliance with fixed book prices and fair competition.
Business model
The central economic mainstay of the cooperative is the sale of accumulated and anonymized sales data from member bookshops to Media Control . There the data u. a. for the industry monitor book and for creating the bestseller list of FOCUS . The services and discounts for members range from discounted bibliographic aids ( VLB ) to offers in the technology and service area ( call center ) to discounted consumables. From 2004 to 2011, the cooperative operated a central warehouse for Member bookstores that the reference model ANABEL ( A utomatische- Na chführ-and- Be Vice l work ogistics), the Barsortiment Libri . In October 2011, the central warehouse business was separated from the cooperative at an extraordinary general meeting at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The central warehouse will henceforth be operated by an eBuch GmbH & Co KG and the eBuch eG will represent the branch-political interests of the member bookshops. Between autumn 2014 and spring 2015 the two platforms were launched ingeniously mobile and ingeniously local . A special feature is that customers can view bookstore stocks online and reserve titles immediately.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book report online from June 30, 2011
- ↑ Homepage of the fixed price trustee
- ↑ Verena Seeholzer: Investigation and comparison of different procurement channels in the retail book trade. March 21, 2005, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on December 17, 2018 (diploma thesis).
- ↑ eBook with 8.86% growth and positive annual results. In: Book Market . February 26, 2010, accessed December 17, 2018 (press release on the 2009 financial statements).
- ↑ eBuch GmbH takes care of economic activities. Separation of economic and cooperative interests. In: Börsenblatt . October 20, 2011, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on December 17, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.buchfinder.net/info.html
- ↑ Book trade defends itself against Amazon. In: wallstreet: online . March 16, 2015, archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; accessed on December 17, 2018 (press release in the original wording).