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The Family-Owned Herder Publishing House - from the traditional to the modern

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March 12, 2013

The Herder publishing house is an institution in Freiburg. Six generations of Herders have been publishing books, with the main focus on theological topics: faith, values and education. But economic pressure on the company is growing. Their usual subjects are becoming harder to sell.

Instead of buying non-fiction, people are searching the internet for advice and increasingly reading digitally. To keep up with the competition, the publishing house has had to reposition itself.

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