Rheinberg Buch

What Rheinberg Buch does

Rheinberg-Buch is a privately held, for-profit online retailer headquartered in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, operating under the domain rheinberg-buch.de. Per the firmographics record, the company runs an online portal that delivers ebooks, films, and other gift accessories, and it sells through a regional own-storefront e-commerce channel that targets SMB and individual consumer buyers. The legal name in the registry record is Rheinberg-Buch, and the company operates a companion application (has_app=true), suggesting a digital storefront with an associated app surface, although the public website currently displays an "Error loading the app" message, flagged in the source as a transient issue rather than evidence of closure.

The business model is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce operation: revenue is generated through sales of digital media (ebooks, films) and physical gift items via the company's own web shop, with no disclosed pricing tiers, subscriptions, or marketplace integrations. The company is small, with headcount stated only as an 11-50 employee band, and there is no information on founding date, ownership structure, investors, parent entity, subsidiaries, or management team in the available data. Operating status is recorded as "operating" despite the storefront load error.

No product catalog, customer logos, marketing channels beyond the own storefront, AI or proprietary technology stack, certifications, patents, partnerships, funding rounds, or M&A activity are present in the source material. This materially limits any deeper analysis of technology architecture, customer mix, unit economics, or growth signals, and the absence of these dimensions should be treated as a data gap rather than as evidence of a non-existent capability.

Name

Rheinberg Buch

Legal name

Rheinberg-Buch

Website

https://rheinberg-buch.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rheinberg-Buch is a privately held German online retailer based in Bergisch Gladbach that sells ebooks, films, and gift accessories to SMB and consumer buyers through its own regional e-commerce storefront at rheinberg-buch.de.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Bookstore and Media Retail

NAICS

Book Retailers and News Dealers (4592)

SIC

Retail-Hobby, Toy & Game Shops (5945)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYCRALAAAA

General Bookstores (New Books)

Consumer Products & Retail/Specialty Retail (Hobby, Books, Office, Pet, Toys)/Books, News & Magazines Retail

Keywords

• Ebook retail
• Online bookstore
• Film media sales
• Gift accessories
• Digital book sales

Headquarters

HQ city

Bergisch Gladbach

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Rheinberg Buch is a German online portal that delivers ebooks, films, and other gift accessories to consumers. It operates an own-brand e-commerce storefront branded "Bücher vom Buchhändler" (Books from the bookseller), positioning itself as a bookseller-led online retail operation based in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

Product overview

No product information available in the source data. The provided webpage content shows only an error message ("Fehler beim Laden der App. Erneut Versuchen" - "Error loading the app. Try again") indicating the website's application failed to load, preventing extraction of product or service details.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rheinberg-Buch Online Shop
• Ebook retail Digital ebooks sold to individual consumers through the Rheinberg-Buch online portal.
• Film retail Films (physical or digital media) sold to individual consumers through the Rheinberg-Buch online portal.
• Gift accessories Gift-oriented accessories and complementary items sold to consumers via the Rheinberg-Buch online portal.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Hugendubel: Long-established German bookstore chain with a strong online shop and physical stores. Comparable as a German-language general bookseller with digital offering and gifting assortment.
• Weltbild: Major German multichannel retailer of books, ebooks, films, music and gift items. Closely mirrors Rheinberg-Buch's mix of books + ebooks + films + gift accessories, making it a strong category-comparable peer despite much larger scale.
• Thalia: Germany's largest omnichannel bookstore chain with integrated ebook store and nationwide retail footprint. Directly comparable to Rheinberg-Buch as a bookseller operating online and across physical touchpoints in Germany, but at vastly larger scale and assortment.
• Libri.de: Wholesale-led German online bookstore operated by Libri, offering new books and gift items. Comparable as a German-language online book retailer though distribution-led rather than retail-led.
• Amazon.de Books: Dominant German online retailer for books, ebooks, films and gift items. The primary competitive benchmark Rheinberg-Buch faces on price, catalogue depth and delivery speed.

Direct peers

• Osiander: Independent German bookseller group with regional stores and an integrated online shop including ebooks and gift items. Comparable in scale and customer focus to a regional online bookseller like Rheinberg-Buch.
• Mayersche Buchhandlung: Family-owned German bookstore with both physical stores and an online shop focused on curated book and gift assortments. Highly comparable positioning to Rheinberg-Buch's regional, bookseller-led identity.
• Bücher.de (Kulturkaufhaus): German online bookshop with broad catalogue and gift/accessory cross-sell. Comparable mid-sized online bookseller competing in the same niche as Rheinberg-Buch.

Regional players

• Bücher Bär: Smaller German online bookseller focused on a curated catalogue and gifting. Comparable as a small, independent German online bookshop competing with Rheinberg-Buch on the same mid-/long-tail assortment.

Emerging players

• ebook.de (by Thalia): Dedicated German-language ebook and digital reading platform. Comparable on the digital-content leg of Rheinberg-Buch's offering and a likely competitor for ebook share in Germany.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rheinberg-buch-andreas-meier-e.k.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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