The new partnership was toasted over a drink with customers over the weekend. “Leipzig is particularly important to us,” he says Book Guild CEO Alexander Elspas. “The Gutenberg Book Guild was founded in August 1924 by the Educational Association of German Book Printers in the Leipzig council house. We are very pleased to have been able to obtain a committed and competent partner bookstore in the Ludwig Bookstore.” The merger is not entirely exemplary: in Freiburg / Breisgau, where Ludwig took over an office in the historic center about five years ago, there is already a meeting place for the book guilds.
Previously they existed in Leipzig in the Thomaskirche bookshop; after their abandonment in the university bookstore, also closed in summer 2020. About three months ago there were the first talks between Elspas and the Ludwig bookstore; the merger, which was prompt and quietly organized, was suggested by Employee Ludwig Volker Arndtwho previously dealt with the guild range of the book in the university library.
The Ludwig bookshop in Leipzig’s main railway station occupies around 1,000 square meters in the historic Prussian waiting room. In the gallery, in front of the bar, you will find the new quarterly publications of the guild of the book and a selection of the program available, for the moment still manageable. Filialleiter Heike Lobin sees the Book Guild program as “an ideal addition” to its range; Publisher Elspas is confident in the “dynamics of everyday business” and points to Ocelot’s pleasant development in Berlin, for example, where the book guild once started with just one linear meter of shelves.
Heike Lobin sees an extra point for his new Buchergilde customers in the opening hours of his station: “We open at five in the morning during the week, at six on Saturdays and at seven on Sundays – and we are always there until 21:30. , even on Sundays. and on holidays! “
Ludovico Library
Promenade Leipzig Central Station
Willy-Brandt-Platz 5
04109 Leipzig
