Net trade
The net trade is a bookstore shape , which in the 18th century, mainly in Leipzig and Saxony established for a few years. It represents the transition from the barter to the money economy on the German book market. The barter trade , which was in effect until 1760 , was abolished as its current form of trade by a group of Saxon publishers under the leadership of the Leipzig publisher Philipp Erasmus Reich . From now on they demanded cash payment for their works, denied their colleagues the right of return and reduced their discount from the originally applicable “quarter discount” from 25% to 16% for cash payments. This approach resulted in serious financial losses, especially for the southern German booksellers and their Austrian colleagues, as their transport and “general measurement costs” were already 20%. These general costs were, for example, travel expenses, the rent for storage rooms and the payment of trade fair helpers at the external book fairs .
Individual evidence
- ^ Füssel, Stephan: The reform efforts in the book trade up to the establishment of the Börsenverein (1765-1825) . In: The Exchange Association of the German Book Trade 1825–2000 . Booksellers Association: Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 19
literature
- Reinhard Wittmann : History of the German book trade. Munich: Beck 1999.