Conditional trading
The condition trade , also called "à condition" or "conditional trade", followed the barter and net trade on the German book market at the end of the 18th century . In addition to cash transactions , it is still one of the main forms of trade in the German book trade. It was introduced in order to reduce the risk of the retail bookseller not being able to sell his new publications and not being able to return them to the publisher . That is why most of the new publications are now ordered “on commission”, so that the assortment has the option of sending these copies back to the publisher until a fixed date if they cannot be sold. The copies returned after this period are called returns ; If the retailer decides to extend the return period for the works with the consent of the publisher, they are called dispatchers .
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literature
- Füssel, Stephan and Helmut Hiller: Dictionary of the book . 7th, fundamentally revised edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt: 2006. ISBN 978-3-465-03495-7
- Keiderling, Thomas: The modernization of the Leipzig commission book trade from 1830 to 1888 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin: 2000. ISBN 3-428-09952-4