Copyright Bookshop Antwerpen


Copyright Bookshop Antwerp closes in Antwerp

2024

The lease with Vespa, the real estate company of the city of Antwerp, ran for another 6 years, but Hilde Peleman and Johan Boeykens decided to close the Antwerp branch on 1 June 2024, after 22 years in the Nationalestraat. There were many reasons for this: the constant traffic jams from Ghent to Antwerp became impossible and a waste of time and energy. After the renovations of the Momu, we lost a part of our own identity and we got far too many museum visitors who viewed our books as an exhibition and as a department of the museum. This situation became very annoying for our loyal and motivated customers and also for our collaborators Babs Decruyenaere and Rudy Voets (who worked in Copyright Antwerp for 18 years and felt how the atmosphere changed). The lack of appreciation and cooperation with our fellow tenants made us decide to concentrate fully on Copyright Gent, the store where it all started in 1983, and work on our special webshop that reflects our aesthetics, content and customer friendliness.

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