Cooperative Internet booksellers with new Web appearance in 2005 asked online Internet-portal prolibri, community can offer their goods which on the antiquarian bookstores to purchase renames from March 2010 in antiquariat.de. This step was made possible by acquiring the top level domain. The carrier of this trading platform, the Association of Internet booksellers EC (short GIAQ), expects this change a more clearly apparent to the customers business name of there active traders compared with the art name prolibri as well as an improvement in the rankings in the search engines. Last argument should be supported by the underlying Internet technology modernization in the course of conversion. On antiquariat.de currently 305 dealers offer some 3.7 million antiquarian books as well as graphics, maps, photographs, notes and similar products in the environment of the antiques. There, the general quality of description of goods is a concern of the GIAQ with its currently 90 shareholders and Sales to improve, what is to be achieved inter alia through access rules. The customer would like to thank it now by one to a significantly higher average selling prices compared to comparable antique portals, what must be understood as a vote of confidence when purchasing more valuable works. Antique shops must be not a member of the cooperative, on the portal products to offer and customers need not own user account to purchase.
antiquariat.de is on the national Antiquariat portals together try to expand European as global distribution networks also participants and co-founder of the European Community platform. The European club marelibri appoints annually an honor second-hand from the circles of people who are culturally have rendered for the bookseller as a profession. The awards for 2008 and 2009 went to Umberto Eco or Cornelia Funke (for details see). Contact: Association of Internet booksellers EC (GIAQ) Luxembourg str. 31 13353 Berlin. Tel.: 030-4660 4908 Fax: 030-4660-4936 E-Mail: of responsible within the meaning of the tele-media law: Dr. Peter Rudolf