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CALLE ARCO – Books the way I love them Traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary distribution channel for people who love books.
Munich, March 2012 – The new internet book platform CALLE ARCO opens its doors in Germany and the United Kingdom (calle-arco.de/calle-arco.co.uk – in the initial beta version) in March 2012. Customers are able to order any available book via CALLE ARCO and have it refined according to their wishes using out of the ordinary materials. For owners of book rights, CALLE ARCO offers an innovative channel for directly exercising their “special print edition rights” and thus for additional revenue. CALLE ARCO”s personal book guardianships also mean that out of print titles can be reprinted “on demand” and kept available.
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The innovative concept combines an internet book shop that is free of advertising with a traditional book binding service and “print on demand” for the owners of book rights. It provides a link between traditional, high quality craftsmanship and individual design as well as practical online distribution channels.
Book Shop
CALLE ARCO is an internet alternative for people who use to shop in an attractive book shop with personal service. Customers are able to browse through the range of available German and/or English titles in this independent internet bookshop. Delivery is free for orders within Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland and the same applies to orders for delivery within the UK. The website is available in both English and German. The required language can be preset for the books displayed. The platform is free of advertising and is not subject to any bestseller lists. CALLE ARCO is transparent. Readers can search for a title according to their own criteria and they themselves determine which book recommendations they wish to receive. When searching for specific books using key words CALLE ARCO customers are able to search by title, author and ISBN as usual as well as also being able to search the books” short summaries.
Book Refining
The website”s design function gives customers the opportunity to upgrade the books they order with a hardcover based on their own individual or on design templates – from a printed photo jacket through to sophisticated covers such as coloured fabric or genuine leather, for instance, as well as special, out of the ordinary materials such as silk or glittering pink. The individual editions are bound by hand by a bookbinder. The title, author and/or personal dedications are hand embossed on the cover and spine using a traditional stamp or else printed digitally. Specially inserted pages provide space for a printed foreword or a handwritten greeting. Each book is thus transformed into a collector”s item, a unique gift or contribution to your own library. The refined books are always delivered in a special white slipcase.
Special Print Edition Rights
CALLE ARCO provides an additional revenue source on either the B2C or the B2B market for all owners of book rights and print files – be it for “in print” or “out of print” titles or for dormant backlists. Publishers, authors, translators and agents are able to grant CALLE ARCO their special print edition rights and thus profit directly from the royalties – without any investment on their part.
Book Guardianships
Carlos Zafón”s novel The Shadow of the Wind inspired a dream and a vision. All of the “adopted” books in the library of forgotten books in the Calle Arco del Teatro are immortalized and thus able to go on speaking to the people”s hearts. Based on Zafón”s idea, every CALLE ARCO customers can take on a guardianship for out of print books that they would like to see “brought back to life”- irrespective of who holds the “special print edition rights”. CALLE ARCO then endeavours to obtain the printing rights and manuscript copy so as to then be able to make the title available to readers again. The guardian receives bonus points for each of the respective titles sold, points that can then be used for book purchases.
Calle Arco GmbH
The independent book platform CALLE ARCO generates demand for individually refined books. CALLE ARCO?s German language books are produced in Berlin and the English books in England by a bookbinding company in London holding a royal warrant from Her Majesty the Queen. ?Managing director and founder of the company based in Seefeld, Germany is literary agent Thomas Wiedling. Wiedling?s business model is inspired by the library of forgotten books in the Calle Arco del Teatro in Zafón?s novel ?The Shadow of the Wind?. Wiedling?s vision comprises a platform for book lovers and beautiful books where no title becomes forgotten.
CALLE ARCO produces CO2-neutral books in cooperation with ClimatePartner GmbH.
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CALLE ARCO GmbH
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Equinomics 101: Cash and Financial Management System Targets Equine Industry with their new Audible version for Smartphones and CDs
March 5, 2012
HOUSTON, Texas, March 5, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Rockwood Enterprises, Inc., a six-year-old Houston-based marketing and publishing company, announced today the launch of an audio book version of “Equinomics 101″ – a management and record keeping system designed to teach horse owners and horse-related businesses how to efficiently manage their finances.
According to the American Horse Council, there are approximately 9.2 million horses in the U.S. used for racing, showing, competition, sport, breeding, recreation and work.
Richard B. Dicks, CPA, equine businessman and author, developed Equinomics 101 to provide a down-to-earth, practical cash and financial management system for horse lovers and small to mid-sized horse-related business owners. Written in an instructional, how-to format, Equinomics 101 reveals what records matter to accountants and the IRS.
The book and software have been very popular in the commercial market place and last year Equinomics 101 was converted into an accredited college course that is now being taught in many leading colleges and universities. Because of today’s busy schedules, most people don’t have ample spare time to read.
By popular request, Equinomics 101 has now been converted into an audio book version for smartphones and CDs and is being released today. The audible book contains 15 chapters of conceptual subject matter that is great for listening to and 5 technical chapters that contain forms and graphs that can be easily accessed through the Equinomics 101 website.
Read by Terry Rose, the 6-CD audio book is informative and easy to listen to and quite enjoyable. The listener will come away with many valuable ideas that can immediately be used in their equine operation.
“Most horse owners practice ‘pitchfork accounting,’” Dicks explained. “They throw everything in a box and hand it over to their CPA. Equinomics 101 is designed to help customers change these destructive financial patterns.” The audio book is designed for horse owners but the information and concepts are also useful for anyone with cattle, alpacas, goats, and other livestock.
According to Dicks, the key to avoiding financial loss is to run the horse operation like a business. Equinomics 101 instructs horse owners on how to minimize hobby-loss.
“Like a good saddle, it’s a tool that no horseman should be without,” Dicks said.
In 2005, the American Horse Council conducted a study that dispelled the misperception that the horse industry is an activity reserved for the wealthy. The horse industry is, in fact, a diverse activity with stakeholders including recreational and show horse riders, and moderate-income track, show and stable employees and volunteers.
Approximately 34 percent of horse owners have a household income of less than $50,000; 28 percent exceed $100,000. 46 percent of horse owners have an income between $25,000 and $75,000.
Equinomics 101 can also be used as a simple record and bookkeeping system, a check register system, or an easy-to-use contact management system. In addition, it also addresses barter and like-kind exchange, equine tax issues, depreciation, and investment analysis.
For more information, visit: http://www.equinomics101.com .
News Source: Rockwood Enterprises, Inc. :: This press release was issued on behalf of the news source by Send2Press® Newswire, a service of Neotrope®. View all current news at: http://Send2PressNewswire.com .
Equinomics 101: Cash and Financial Management System Targets Equine Industry with their new Audible version for Smartphones and CDs
March 5, 2012
HOUSTON, Texas, March 5, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Rockwood Enterprises, Inc., a six-year-old Houston-based marketing and publishing company, announced today the launch of an audio book version of “Equinomics 101″ – a management and record keeping system designed to teach horse owners and horse-related businesses how to efficiently manage their finances.
According to the American Horse Council, there are approximately 9.2 million horses in the U.S. used for racing, showing, competition, sport, breeding, recreation and work.
Richard B. Dicks, CPA, equine businessman and author, developed Equinomics 101 to provide a down-to-earth, practical cash and financial management system for horse lovers and small to mid-sized horse-related business owners. Written in an instructional, how-to format, Equinomics 101 reveals what records matter to accountants and the IRS.
The book and software have been very popular in the commercial market place and last year Equinomics 101 was converted into an accredited college course that is now being taught in many leading colleges and universities. Because of today’s busy schedules, most people don’t have ample spare time to read.
By popular request, Equinomics 101 has now been converted into an audio book version for smartphones and CDs and is being released today. The audible book contains 15 chapters of conceptual subject matter that is great for listening to and 5 technical chapters that contain forms and graphs that can be easily accessed through the Equinomics 101 website.
Read by Terry Rose, the 6-CD audio book is informative and easy to listen to and quite enjoyable. The listener will come away with many valuable ideas that can immediately be used in their equine operation.
“Most horse owners practice ‘pitchfork accounting,’” Dicks explained. “They throw everything in a box and hand it over to their CPA. Equinomics 101 is designed to help customers change these destructive financial patterns.” The audio book is designed for horse owners but the information and concepts are also useful for anyone with cattle, alpacas, goats, and other livestock.
According to Dicks, the key to avoiding financial loss is to run the horse operation like a business. Equinomics 101 instructs horse owners on how to minimize hobby-loss.
“Like a good saddle, it’s a tool that no horseman should be without,” Dicks said.
In 2005, the American Horse Council conducted a study that dispelled the misperception that the horse industry is an activity reserved for the wealthy. The horse industry is, in fact, a diverse activity with stakeholders including recreational and show horse riders, and moderate-income track, show and stable employees and volunteers.
Approximately 34 percent of horse owners have a household income of less than $50,000; 28 percent exceed $100,000. 46 percent of horse owners have an income between $25,000 and $75,000.
Equinomics 101 can also be used as a simple record and bookkeeping system, a check register system, or an easy-to-use contact management system. In addition, it also addresses barter and like-kind exchange, equine tax issues, depreciation, and investment analysis.
For more information, visit: http://www.equinomics101.com .
News Source: Rockwood Enterprises, Inc. :: This press release was issued on behalf of the news source by Send2Press® Newswire, a service of Neotrope®. View all current news at: http://Send2PressNewswire.com .
Sales of Award Winning Text ‘Construction Project Management – a Managerial Approach’ Increase 400 Percent
February 27, 2012
CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 27, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Sales of the textbook “Construction Project Management – a Managerial Approach” (ISBN: 978-0-9799969-1-7) by Pareto Publishing, have increased 400 percent each semester since publication in December 2010. The text is now increasingly used in United States 2-year, 4-year and graduate university construction management, architecture and real estate programs.
Winning the Axion Business Book, Indie Next Generation, and International Best Book Awards, it has also become popular with construction industry practitioners and is now in library collections worldwide.
Demanding building owners have learned that simply soliciting multiple bids is no longer enough to achieve the results they seek-a paradigm shift to integrated project delivery is needed. This text uniquely provides this integration of construction management, project management and business management to enable a quantum leap in construction project quality, productivity and cost control-producing a competitive advantage essential in the now challenging United States construction market.
And it is the first to integrate the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® methodology into construction. The United States manufacturing, power production, and energy distribution owners increasingly value and demand this integration. And all construction sectors in some areas outside the United States, particularly the Middle East, demand this methodology and require the PMP (Project Management Professional) certification credential for new employees. In the United States, the federal government GSA (General Services Administration) agency also makes the PMP credential preferred for new construction related employees – which can make it a de facto requirement in a competitive employment environment.
In this challenging U.S. commercial and residential construction employment market for graduating construction management students, many question the cost-benefit relationship of an increasingly costly university education.
This text, authored by JF McCarthy MBA CFM PMP a 40-year construction veteran, provides real world perspective and skills to make the graduating students work ready – to win their first job and excel throughout their career. And it provides exactly the skills that the power generation and energy constructions sectors, which have already rebounded and are now aggressively hiring, increasingly demand.
University adoptions and presales sales for the summer and fall of 2012 will continue the present text sales increase. With these continued increases “Construction Project Management – A Managerial Approach” will achieve a dominant share of the construction management academic market within 2-3 years.
For more information, visit: http://www.paretobi.com .
News Source: Pareto Building Improvement :: This press release was issued on behalf of the news source by Send2Press® Newswire, a service of Neotrope®. View all current news at: http://Send2PressNewswire.com .
