By Sophie Last Friday our Martijn and Paul visited the Casa Montessori school in Pijnacker, for a book fair. We brought a variety of kids books, from picture books to chapter books to a selection from our Kids 9-12 section. And we brought bargains too, because who doesn't love to [...]
by Claudio Once we get past the first 45 minutes of Michiel Vos on the stage of the DeLaMar, interviewing Fran Lebowitz, the evening can finally begin. For the remaining 45, she engages the sold-out house from behind a dark-wooden lectern, which gives the whole thing something of a college lecture [...]
by Else This is your event reporter, Else, reporting live from the scene of the event. On the 13th of September 2025, the ABC was once again present at Read My World in the Tolhuistuin. Usually the book market of Read My World is located in the gardens, but due [...]
By Lauren Who owns the future? (Hint: It could be us) ABC’s new partnership with the John Adams Institute (JAI) got off to an inspiring start on 17 June with a talk on tech, imagination and inequity in the 21st century, where audiences were tasked with pondering how tech might be reimagined [...]
By Else Two weeks after Made in Asia we traveled to another convention to set up our pop-up bookstore, this time in the lovely Ghent at FACTS, Belgium’s largest Comic Con. This means a group of four very nerdy booksellers (Tiemen, Sywert, Jonna and me) made a road trip from Amsterdam [...]
By Else Every year, the ABC does a couple events out “in the wild”; basically setting up a pop-up bookstore on location, be it a convention, The Next Web, or at a school fair. In the middle of March, we set up a pop-up bookstore at Made in Asia 2025 in [...]
