Life as a Bookseller Archives

How We Do It: In-Store Displays

By Naomi It all starts with a dinner. About twice a year, the members of the display teams for The Hague and Leidschendam dine together to plan the in-store displays for the coming six months. The four of us try to have a plan so we know what we’re going to do [...]

Lilia2024-08-24T15:47:07+02:00Tags: Display Teams, Displays, Naomi|

ABC Interview: Else

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Else, [...]

Lilia2024-07-31T11:49:05+02:00Tags: Ann Leckie, Else, Erin Morgenstern, Kilava, Night Circus, Richard Powers, Steven Erikson|

ABC Interview: Emma

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Emma, our [...]

Lilia2024-07-18T11:42:49+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Arthur Conan Doyle, Classics, EmmaV, Fantasy, Interviews, J.K. Rowling, Lewis Carroll, Non-Fiction, Pygmy Puff, Rachel Harrison, Tarot decks, Wizarding World|

ABC Interview: Jilles

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk with Jilles, [...]

Lilia2024-08-11T12:01:49+02:00Tags: Agatha Christie, Consciousness, Crime Fiction, Gay Crime, Horror, Interviews, John Carpenter, Michael Nava, Michael Singer, Paul Ferrini, Peter Straub, Stephen King|

ABC Interview: Vika

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Vika, our [...]

Lilia2024-07-21T12:08:50+02:00Tags: ABC interview, Edga Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Harry Potter, Haruki Murakami, Hedwig, Middle-earth, Oscar Wilde, Sebastião Salgado, Stephen King, Vika|

ABC Interview: Renata

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Renata, buyer [...]

Lilia2024-07-08T11:34:27+02:00Tags: Agatha Christie, Appa, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Momo, Pantalaimon, Philip Pullman, Renata, Science Fiction, Terry Pratchett, Young Adult|

ABC Interview: Sywert

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk with Sywert, Jack-of-all-trades [...]

Lilia2024-06-30T18:07:33+02:00Tags: Boardgames, Casandra Khaw, Cats, Dan Abnett, Dragons, Fantasy, Hailey Piper, Horror, John Gwynne, Peter F. Hamilton, Robin Hobb, Science Fiction, Sywert, Terry Pratchett|

ABC Interview: Carla

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk with Carla, [...]

Lilia2024-06-23T12:50:38+02:00Tags: Aslan, C.S. Lewis, Carla, Fantasy, Fiction, Gabriel García Márquez, General Fiction, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Narnia, Paulo Coelho, Romantasy, Rubén Darío, Sarah J. Maas, Young Adult|

Happy second birthday to our store in the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands!

When we started thinking about opening a store in the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands, it had been almost 20 years since we last had a third store (in Leuven, Belgium). The decision to start this new adventure was not an easy one. When we finally decided to take the leap [...]

Martijn2023-03-24T12:21:11+01:00Tags: Anecdotes, Martijn, News from the store floors|

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