ALIRE is an association of booksellers who share the same objective: to develop the use of high-performance IT tools, fed with reliable, up-to-date information, with reasonable prices. The Association represents booksellers from different types of bookstores, who identify the needs of the profession, support the development of new messages, inform IT service providers and encourage them to integrate these new functions.
The association is the main shareholder of Dilicom, an inter-professional organization which manages the FEL (exhaustive book file), the basis of exchanges between actors in the book chain, and operates all EDI messages which replace old paper / fax / telephone messages: order, shipping advice, invoices, returns, ...
ALIRE is a team of professionals, who have been active in facing the changes in their profession for the past three decades. During this time they saw the emergence of digital books, enrichment of databases, new interprofessional tools, and dematerialization of invoices.