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Bookstores in the Netherlands

The American Book Center

The American Book Center is a Dutch family-owned company with stores in Amsterdam, The Hague and Louvain/Leuven (Belgium). It was founded when in 1972 a couple of young enthusiastic Americans came to Amsterdam, the city where anybody, anything and everything goes, and decided to open a store with American erotic magazines and book remainders bought for 10 cents a pound dry weight… that was over 30 years ago!

Today the American Book Center has grown into one of the biggest sources of American (and British) language books on continental Europe, with not only a store in Amsterdam but also one in The Hague (which opened in 1976) and one in Leuven, Belgium (opened in 1999).

10% discount for students, 65 +, teachers, and ABC cardholders

Three stores, one Internet site: http://www.abc.nl/

Dutch girl eating a herring

Poster: herrings for sale, featuring a typical Dutch girl eating a herring in the traditional manner. Photo by John Tranter, Rotterdam, June 2005

Amsterdam
Kalverstraat 185
1012XC Amsterdam
phone +31( 0)20 — 6255537
fax +31( 0)20 — 6248042
email info [at] abc.nl
Mon — Sat 10-20
Thursday 10-21
Sunday 11-18:30

The Hague
Lange Poten 23
2511 CM Den Haag
phone +31( 0)70 — 3642742
fax +31( 0)70 — 3656557
email dh [at] abc.nl
Monday 11-19
Tues, Wed, Fri 10-19
Thursday 10-21
Saturday 10-18
every Sunday 12-18

3000 Leuven (B)
Diestsestraat 115
phone +32 (0)16292247
fax +32 (0)16292247
email info@abcleuven.be
Mon-Sat 10-18:15