Nina Stavisky on European Bookselling Courses
April 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm BST
Topic: BRN April Meeting: Nina Stavisky
Time: Apr 25, 2025 02:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/93829154990?pwd=kCAa5bpsglfBv7IzOOmawMTnzwqD5P.1
Bookselling seems to be an innate profession, after all we learn to read at school and to be a bookseller you have to love reading, don’t you?
Across Europe, a number of bookselling schools, whether public or private, apprenticeship or university-based, for initial or continuing training, provide high-quality training for future booksellers, department managers or company directors.
What do they teach and how do they train the booksellers of tomorrow?
Nina Stavisky has been working in the book trade for over 20 years, as a bookseller, trainer, teacher, in the technical field and in booksellers’ associations. She is the general delegate of ALIRE, an association working on technique and technology in bookshops, and is also an associate lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre and head of the bookselling section of the information and communication department, which trains students in three years to become booksellers.
ALIRE was founded in 1989, and represents independent booksellers, chains and pure-players (including Amazon, supermarkets…) in the French book trade.
