Prices are rising everywhere, except for books, says Ingo Kretzschmar. He wants a new form of book price fixing – and announces longer delivery times for books.
Interviewed by
Dieter Surig
Ingo Kretzschmar, 43, has been running the Thalia bookstore chain in Hagen since June of this year. Predecessor Michael Busch, 58, is now the spokesman for the shareholders; in 28 years he had expanded Thalia into Germany’s largest bookseller with 370 stores. Most recently, the market share was 22 percent. The business graduate Kretzschmar was previously sales manager at Thalia, he started his career in 2006 at Douglas, the bookseller’s former owner.