Park Books and Scheidegger & Spiess open their own bookstore

The bookstore opens on April 6, 2017 and is called Never Stop Reading. It is located in the old town of Zurich, within walking distance of the Kunsthaus, the university and the ETH, on the famous Spiegelgasse, where Büchner and Lenin lived and Dada was born in 1916. The store carries a wide range of international books on architecture, photography, art and design. The aim is to play in a field that has not been occupied in Zurich for some time, according to a press release. In addition, a carefully compiled selection of English books is presented, which are of interest to an urban contemporary audience.

The bookstore offers space for small exhibitions, mainly from the field of photography, and organizes a varied program of book presentations, readings and discussions. Bookseller Nora Schwyn, in her mid-thirties, is a book person with heart and soul and already has a lot of experience. From 2008 to 2017, she worked at the Sec52 bookstore in Zurich.

The owners of the independent bookstore come from the environment of the Zurich publishing houses Scheidegger & Spiess and Park Books. They are the Meili brothers, majority shareholders in Scheidegger & Spiess, the lawyer Andi Hoppler, a member of the board of directors of both publishing houses, and Thomas Kramer, their managing director.