Advice
Our booksellers, who have all received thorough training, will be happy to advise and guide you through a range which is sometimes disconcerting for its rich diversity…
Understanding your needs, analysing your requests to offer you a service which is not simply standardised, but genuinely tailor- made - that is our commitment to our readers.
For this purpose, we supply the widest choice of books in the towns where we have bookshops, and this service is enhanced by extensive expertise in the world of French, English and German-language publishing.

Bibliographic searches
Our staff have powerful modern tools at their disposal to support their research. In some sectors, traditional paper catalogues remain essential, while in others they have been replaced by databases, either online or on cd-rom. These new tools have the advantage of frequent updates and of permitting very accurate indexing, thereby guaranteeing more effective searches.
We have bibliographic databases for the main book publishing countries: France, Germany, United States, England and Switzerland. For other countries, in addition to paper catalogues, we benefit from a network of correspondents who help us to locate the small publishers who find it difficult to secure a listing in the big international catalogues.
This expertise, this network of addresses and these powerful bibliographic tools are the very heart of the bookselling profession. That marks us out from ordinary book retailers and is your guarantee that Payot Libraire will remain the reference in the world of books.

Gift vouchers [lien Acheter un Bon cadeau]
Our gift vouchers can be used in all our bookshops in Switzerland with unlimited validity and are greatly appreciated by our customers.
You can purchase them with different face values and they make an attractive alternative to a book for a person with whose tastes you are not very familiar.

Exchange vouchers
Does the person already have the book offered by you as a gift?
Are you not sure which book to give?
Our exchange vouchers are the solution in situations of this kind!
You can ask for them when making your purchase and thus enable the book to be exchanged in all our bookshops in Switzerland. Simple and convenient!

Gift wrapping
An extensive, varied and above all elegant choice of paper combined with «hand finishing»: those are the distinctive features of our gift parcels for a special occasion.
They are greatly appreciated and add the «finishing touch» to your gifts.

Meetings and dedications
Enabling you to meet your preferred authors who sign and dedicate their books is another highly developed service offered by Payot to its customers: more than 160 sessions were arranged for our customers in all our bookshops in the year 2005 alone.