Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel

Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel (also presented online as Elburger Boekhandel) is a local book and office-supply retailer based in Elburg, a historic Hanseatic town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The name itself describes the business: a combined bookshop (boekhandel) and office-supply store (kantoorboekhandel), the kind of general-purpose local retailer that serves both reading customers and businesses, schools and offices needing stationery and office requisites. The shop's online presence runs through Libris, the Dutch cooperative platform used by a large number of independent booksellers. Its web shop at libris.nl/elburgerboekhandel presents curated top-ten lists across categories such as children's books (Kind), thrillers (Spanning), cooking (Koken), literary fiction (Literatuur), non-fiction (Non-Fictie), e-books and English-language titles, alongside BookTok selections. Featured titles and prices shown on the site include Dutch and international authors such as Connie Palmen, Arthur Japin, Yotam Ottolenghi, Robert Harris, Karin Slaughter, Dan Brown, Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl, indicating a general trade bookshop assortment rather than a specialist niche. As a small independent retailer, the business is primarily known locally in and around Elburg, where it functions as a physical point of sale for books, stationery and office supplies, complemented by the Libris web shop for online ordering. It is not a listed company and no parent group beyond its participation in the Libris booksellers' network is documented in the available sources. Its Wikidata entry (Q110930839) records the entity under its full name, Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel. Because the available evidence consists of the shop's Libris web page and a Wikidata identifier, details such as founding year, ownership structure and exact address are not documented here. The dossier therefore focuses on what can be verified: its identity as a Dutch combined book-and-office retailer, its Elburg location, and its online catalogue presence via Libris.

Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel is a combined bookshop and office-supply business in Elburg, a historic town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Its name follows a common Dutch retail convention in which a single shop serves both the general reading public and the local demand for stationery, office requisites and related supplies — hence 'boek- en kantoorboekhandel' (book and office bookshop). Like many independent Dutch bookshops, the business maintains an online shop through Libris, the cooperative platform and brand used by a large network of independent booksellers in the Netherlands. Through its Libris page, the shop presents curated top-ten lists by category — children's books, thrillers, cooking, literary fiction, non-fiction, e-books, English-language titles and BookTok picks — and lists current titles with prices, such as works by Connie Palmen, Arthur Japin, Yotam Ottolenghi, Robert Harris, Karin Slaughter, Dan Brown, Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl. This indicates a broad general-trade assortment rather than a specialised inventory. The available evidence does not document the shop's founding year, its ownership history, or any expansion, relocation or change of name. It is recorded as an entity in Wikidata under the identifier Q110930839, using the full name Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel. Beyond its participation in the Libris network and its Elburg base, no corporate parent, listing or franchise structure is documented. The business is best understood as a small, locally rooted independent retailer whose physical store serves Elburg and its surroundings and whose Libris web shop extends its reach online.

Local independent combined bookshop and office-supply retailer, selling online through the Libris booksellers' platform.

• Books across fiction, non-fiction, children's, thriller and cooking categories

  General trade assortment presented through curated top-ten lists on the Libris web shop.

• E-books

  Digital titles listed among the shop's online categories.

• English-language books

  A dedicated category for English-language titles on the web shop.

• Stationery and office supplies

  Implied by the 'kantoorboekhandel' (office bookshop) part of the business name.

1. 1Elburger Boekhandel | Homelibris.nl
2. 2Elburger Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel (Wikidata)wikidata.org