People are reading less and online shops are getting bigger and bigger: it is not an easy time for 'old-fashioned' bookstores. Yet the Rotterdam bookstore Van Rietschoten has held its ground for 100 years. By now, it is even the only independent bookstore in South Rotterdam: “We are a kind of living room.”
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People are reading less and online shops are getting bigger and bigger: it is not an easy time for 'old-fashioned' bookstores. Yet the Rotterdam bookstore Van Rietschoten has held its ground for 100 years. By now, it is even the only independent bookstore in South Rotterdam: “We are a kind of living room.”