About Antiquariat.de

After long theorical discussions about our aims and visions a bunch of
freedom and independence loving antiquarian booksellers with online
activities decided months later at the beginning of the 21st century to
create a cooperative of antiquarian booksellers, the so called GIAQ
(Genossenschaft der Internetantiquare : Cooperative of the antiquarian online
booksellers) which should run and own a proper platform (www.prolibri.de)
offering our items.

Due to our IT-mastermind Thomas Benedix we are now offering one of the best
german databases and, though regarded sceptically - not only by our
colleagues - but also by some of our dealers, we are very fit for the market
as a democraticly ruled and commonly owned enterprise.

How quick we are was proven in the last months (June 2007 to january 2008) as
we decided to cooperate with our european friends and helped in forming the
structures and the creating of a database, which seems to be, now mainly due
to the french team, one of the best in Europe; all this within less than 6
months.

Why do we talk about structures, visions and organisations ? Technics and so
on and not about customers, as there are two kind of: first of all, you, the
booklover and hunter of long searched book without whom we would have nothing
to do and, the second kind of our customers, the free and independend online
antiquarian bookseller, mostly a very individualized and sometimes freaky
human beeing, surrounded by tons of books described for and waiting for you
to come and see and order. In a certain sense we created Antiquariat.de and
recently marelibri to give them, all of us, our faces back, lost in the
anonymity of online trade run nowadays by the big business.

We are very happy that you found this site and had been so curious to read
about us, who we are and what we want, thank you.

'Vielen Dank', a typical german expression as most of us at Antiquariat.de... are
german speaking.
Christoph Schaefer - Antiquariat.de