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• Erasmus recognized for its role in joint efforts to exclude books from the EUDR

  Posted on 12/12/2025

  Erasmus Boekhandel has been recognized by the Koninklijke Boekverkopersbond (KBb) for its significant collaborative role, alongside KBb, the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF), LIBER, and other organizations, in successfully ensuring that books were exempted from the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
  https://www.boekbond.nl/goed-nieuws-boeken-uitgesloten-van-de-eudr-ontbossingswet/

  Through coordinated national and European advocacy, we highlighted that books and other printed materials pose no deforestation risk due to their reliance on certified, recycled or sustainably sourced paper. Our joint lobbying helped convince the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council that including finished printed products in the EUDR would disproportionately burden the book sector, threaten supply chains, and limit citizens’ access to knowledge and culture.

  The collective efforts contributed to the EU’s decision in December 2025 to formally exclude books and other printed materials from the scope of the regulation. This outcome safeguards cultural diversity, academic access and the free circulation of books across Europe.

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• Information about shipments to the United States

  Posted on 05/09/2025

  Dear Librarian, 

  Following the introduction of duties on imports to the US, we would like to address any concerns you may have regarding future shipments of books to your library. 

  While print material is exempt from tariffs, we are aware that there has been confusion among some shipping agents. 

  We would like to assure you that we have a consolidated and longstanding partnership with a freight-forwarder based in New Jersey and we have not encountered any difficulties thus far.  

  Although we do not expect our shipments to be affected by the changes, we will of course continue to carefully monitor the situation and will let our customers know should there be any updates.  

  We invite you to contact us with any questions or comments regarding our shipments, or for any further assistance.

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• Casalini Libri, Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel and @Cult pledge their continued commitment to libraries

  Posted on 17/03/2025

  Our companies share a single vision: to provide the very best services, partnering libraries through evolutions in all areas of the scholarly communications industry.
  

  Casalini Libri, Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel and @Cult pledge their continued commitment to libraries, accompanying traditional, core services with investment in new, flexible and sustainable ways of providing access to academic publishing from all over the world.

  Leading providers of publications, bibliographic data and knowledge management solutions, together we focus on providing the best possible services to libraries, steered solely by our long-standing and close ties with the international library community and in line with their evolving needs.

  Firmly rooted in our joint mission to disseminate European academic publishing to libraries around the world, to advocate for libraries and to create innovative tools that facilitate access to knowledge:

  • we continue to supply books and journals in print format, providing expert collection development support across all disciplines and tailoring resources to the library’s shelf-ready preferences.
  • we support libraries through all aspects of selecting, acquiring and accessing digital publications, to make collection development, discovery, and everything in between as simple and streamlined as possible, with flexible selection tools and acquisitions models tailored to each library’s individual requirements, including permanent access, single title purchasing and PDA models. 
  • we maintain our commitment to timely and quality bibliographic data and to the development of new solutions for information management and knowledge sharing, supporting innovative, collaborative andsustainable approaches to cataloguing environments and knowledge sharing.

  With over 150 years of collective experience, our well-established relations with publishers, knowledge of individual markets and constant contact with the territories we cover mean we are ideally placed and equipped to source any print publication, allowing libraries to consolidate orders for all titles with confidence, regardless of language, format and subject area.

  Thanks to our very own digital library platform, which hosts content from over 580 academic publishers, we are able to negotiate on behalf of libraries, representing their voice with academic publishers, to ensure vast digital collections and a full range of services for academic libraries.

  Driven by the determination to anticipate the changing needs of the market, we work side by side with the international library community to define and develop tools that ensure the integrity and authority of bibliographical data and to forward the practical implementation of BIBFRAME and linked open data for libraries.

  We know that all libraries and all collections are unique, which is why we believe that libraries themselves are best placed to steer our activities, according to real-life requirements. Our common aim in this new eco-system of academic publishing is to continue to partner and facilitate libraries in sustaining and promoting access to scholarship for their patrons and serving new generations of the international research community.

  Michele Casalini
  Chief Executive of Casalini Libri

  
  

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