In 1972 a couple of young enthusiastic Americans came to Amsterdam, the city where anybody, anything and everything goes, and decided to open a store with American erotic magazines and book remainders bought for 10 cents a pound dry weight...that was over 30 years ago!

Today the American Book Center has grown in one of the biggest, maybe even the biggest source of American (and British) language books on continental Europe with not only a store in Amsterdam but also one in The Hague (which opened in 1976) and we had one in Leuven, Belgium (from 1999 to 2005).

We have our very own Treehouse (Amsterdam) and Treehut (in The Hague) where meetings, readings and other events are organized.