Located at Spui in Central Amsterdam, the American Book Center is actually an independent family-run store that has kept alive in a time of multinational and online book selling and publishing.
The first thing one can notice when stepping inside Berenstraat 11, that is the Mendo’s Bookstore, is the compact black interior design of the place.
Shopping for books is a commonplace in Amsterdam. The multi-cultural city holds many large book stores and libraries that hold collections from varied cultures across the world. This is largely due to Amsterdam’s liberal and free-thinking atmosphere.
One can find a large number of book stores strewn across the cobbled streets of the city, especially in the core centrums where numerous well-established publishers hold fort. Books, novels, historicals and coffee-table reads can be easily found in any one of the myriad of book stores dotted across the city.
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