Publishing and book trading between hyperinflation and global economic crisis, between the foundation of the republic and the decrease of democracy. The newly published second part of the History of the German Book Trade in the Weimar Republic presents, among other subjects, publishers of fiction as well as ideological publishers, political and confessional publishers, the intermediate book trade and all forms of the spreading book trade, libraries and writer's organizations, book buyers and readers as well as the export book trade.