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The DBH Deutsche Buch Handels GmbH & Co. KG (English: German Book Trading Inc. with sole general partner with a limited commercial partnership) based in Munich competes for being the major book trading company in Germany with rival Thalia.
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78 stores with book departments in France, 65 in 8 other countries Hachette Distribution Services France: Furet du Nord France: Hugendubel Germany: 34 book-department-stores Thalia Germany: Weltbild Germany: includes Weltbild Plus, Weltbild, Weltbild best, Jokers, Wohlthat (circa 350-400 shops) Ianos Greece: Eymundsson Iceland: A. H. Wheeler India
Still the fixed prices for books in Germany give smaller competitors a chance. [11] However Thalia has also adopted single book shops. Moreover, there is support for local businesses in the way that every Thalia chain store has a section for local literature (featuring local history, vernacular etc.), keepsakes and related articles.
On Germany (French: De l'Allemagne), also known in English as Germany, is a book about German culture and in particular German Romanticism, written by the French writer Germaine de Staël. It promotes Romantic literature, introducing that term to readers in France and other parts of Europe.
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It also says it is No. 2 among online book retailers (presumably after Amazon.de). Weltbild employs some 6,400 employees and has a revenue of 1,7 billion EUR. According to the enterprise, some 5,5 million customers in the German-speaking countries buy Weltbild books by mail order, in one of the 300 Weltbild shops or over the Internet.
The arrangement of reading areas was innovative in the early 1980s, giving the bookshop a design between department store and a public library Heinrich Karl Gustav Hugendubel, 1893 Heinrich Karl Gustav Hugendubel bought an existing bookshop at Salvatorplatz in Munich in 1893, laying the foundation for a German limited partnership , GmbH & Co. KG.