Belgium Country Report

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Belgium Country Report

• Ms Elke Vanhemelryck
• De Reyghere Bookstore
• Bruges-Belgium

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Europe Belgium
Belgium
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FLANDERS

• Dutch speaking part north FLANDERS
• French speaking part south WALLONY
• German speaking part east
• Inhabitants 10 million

• 350 bookshops
• 3000 points of sale
• Average price of a book in retail 14 euro
• Senior citizens spend the most time reading /-
  4 h per week

FLANDERS WALLONY

• Flanders cooperation with Holland same language
• Wallony coöperation with France
• Flanders
• Chain bookstores Standaard boekhandel, Club,
  ECI, Fnac
• Independent bookstores join hands in COLIBRO
  which defends the small bookstores against the
  policy of chain bookstores

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ASSOCIATIONS

• Boek.be boekenbank
• VBV Vlaamse boekverkopers verbond
• Flemish Booksellers Association
• VUV Vlaamse Uitgevers Vereniging
• Flemish Alliance of Publishers
• Stichting Lezen
• Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren
• Flemish Literature Foundation

• Association of independent bookstores, known for
  its quality service quality range of books
• The main office provides information and
  organises events and special activities for its
  members
• Specials prices negotiated
• Special promotions negotiated
• Represents the voice of the independent
  bookshop versus the chain bookstore

- Confederation of the Flemish booksellers,
publishers, and importers. - Organises collective
promotion activities and stimulates the further
professionalizing of its members (day of
poetry - Prizes boekenleeuw, boekenpauw -
Campaign spring in literature - Has a database
boekenbank which provides information about the
availibility of a book is a link for ordering
books online
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• Membership membership of chainstore Carrefour
  rejected because of violation prise
• 140 members groups 1 member
• Voices the opinions desires of the bookseller
• Cooporates with the cultural field libraries,
  musea
• Knowledge training

• Association of Flemish Publishers

• Wants to motivate the culture of reading
• Specialises in childrens books and youth
  literature
• Helps to organise lectures and rendez-vous with
  authors
• Financed by the Flemish government

• Documentation
• Archives
• Provides financial support for projects - i.e.
  translations
• Presents our literature in other countries

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MARKET ANALYSES

• No price regulation only general trade law which
  prevents selling at a loss

SALES REPORT GENERAL 2007
1. Sales 2006 133.241.321 2007 147.687.136 2.
Quantity 2006 9.779.228 2007 10.557.594
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Details sales
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SALES REPORT 2007
Sales report 2007 (without comics)

• Harry Potter 6
• Comic kiekeboe
• Comic Kiekeboe
• Comic Kiekeboe
• Comic Kiekeboe
• Comic FC De Kampioenen
• Pocket dictionary Dutch
• Comic suske wiske
• Comic Suske Wiske
• Comic Suske Wiske

• Harry Potter 6
• Prisma NL pocket dictionary
• De Vliegeraar the Kite Runner - Hosseini
• Rebus
• Op drift (Flemish thriller set in Bruges)
  Pieter Aspe
• De weg naar Mekka the Road to Mekka
• Duizend schitterende zonnen a thousand suns
  Hosseini
• Harry Potter (hb)
• Helaasheid der dingen (Belgian Flemish author)
• Ons seksboek about sex Goedele Liekens

Sales report 2007 - fiction

• The Kite Runner
• Rebus
• Op drift
• A thousand suns
• Helaasheid der dingen
• Til its over
• Shadow of the wind
• Tirza
• Erfenis van de tempeliers
• Spoorloos

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Colibro FICTION
Colibro NON FICTION

• Zevende Kamer Pieter Aspe
• Verdriet van België Hugo Claus
• Verloofde van Sado Amélie Nothomb
• Relaas van een stofzuiger Pepijn Lievens
• Het verslag van Brodeck Philippe Claudel
• Vergeten Tombe (Tomb) Kate Moss
• De boodschapper / De Koran Kader Abdollah
• De Vliegeraar - the Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
• Brida Paulo Coelho
• Duizend Schitterende Zonnen - A Thousand Suns
  Khaled Hosseini

• Ik ben God niet Frank Vandenbroecke
• Dik in orde en toch dun Steph Goossens
• Expo 58
• Van Franschmans en Walemannen
• Beminde Ongelovigen Anne Provoost
• Het toppunt van België Julien Van Remoortele
• Seks met de koningin Eleanor Herman
• Expo 58 Annick Lesage
• De weg naar Mekka Jan Leyers
• Vriendinnen Betty Mellaerts

Literary CALENDAR

• JANUARY Day of Poetry
• FEBRUARI Valentine
• MARCH Week of the Childrens books
• APRIL Spring Fiction
• MAY Holy Communion
• JUNE month of the Thriller

• - JULY summer of paperbacks
• AUGUST summer of paperbacks
• SEPTEMBER schooldictionaries
• OKTOBER the Other Book
• NOVEMBER book fair Antwerp
• DECEMBER Santa Claus, X-mas

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BRUGES

• About 20 bookstores
• Thousands of tourists wander the streets of
  Bruges every year

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De Reyghere www.dereyghere.be

• Oldest Flemish bookshop 1888
• First specialised in newspapers, magazines,
  English books (known as the English bookshop)
• - Family business
• - General bookstore
• - Travel bookstore
• - 2e bookstore in St Kruis

facts

• Literature Dutch, translated, French, Spanish,
  Italian, German, English
• Arts
• Tourism Bruges
• Postcards, notebooks, newspapers and magazines,
  bookmarks
• Reading lights
• Marijke, Nancy, Nele, Nathalie, Daisy, Maureen
• Joris, Ivy Thomas

• January HERMAN DE CONINCK / POETRY
• February BOEKENLEEUW / BOEKENPAUW /
  childrens books
• March GOUDEN UIL
• May LIBRIS
• July BEST DEBUT (chosen by readers)
• Oktober AKO
• November HERCULE POIROT

Awards
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De Reyghere
Travelbookshop
De Reyghere St. Kruis
Bookstore St. Kruis
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News highlights 2008

• Death of Hugo Claus
• - Shortlist Nobel Prize Literature
• - Greatest Belgian author
• - Masterpeice and classic sorrow of Belgium

• Death of Angele Manteau
• - Started her own publishing house
• - Was a very important voice in the bookworld in
  Belgium and the Netherlands