And secondly thank you for all your pleasant and helpful feedback to the last letter, which is available online for those of you who did not have time to open it at: http://www.wiley-vch.de/newsletter/author0105.html.

Copy editing and production - with a passion for publishing

Once a manuscript is (almost) complete, the team shown below takes care of your titles. Copy editing and production is organized and coordinated by a team made up of highly qualified production managers and scientists (biologists, chemists, ...). Do you want to see them in person - here is a snapshot:

Front row: Maike Petersen (biologist), Hans-Jochen Schmitt (production manager), Nele Denzau (production manager) Second row: Axel Eberhard (production director), Melanie Rohn (chemist), Brigitte Gutfleisch (production assistant), Uschi Schling-Brodersen (chemist), Peter Biel (production manager) (left to right). Not in the picture: Martina Liebetrau (assistant), Romy Kirsten (chemist), Claudia Grössl (production manager).

And even more are working with our books, especially with the electronic dissemination of online books and databases. For more information, please see our next newsletter.

Come and see us ...

Date: from	to	Event	City
10.05.05	12.05.05	DECHEMA BioPerspectives 2005	Wiesbaden, Germany
31.05.05	03.06.05	E-MRS 2005 Spring Meeting	Strasbourg, France
02.07.05	07.07.05	FEBS-IUBMB Conference 2005	Budapest, Hungary
04.07.05	08.07.05	LPHYS 05 - 14th International Laser Physics Workshop	Kyoto, Japan
10.07.05	15.07.05	7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering	Glasgow, United Kingdom
17.07.05	21.07.05	OMCOS 13 - Iupac Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed towards Organic Synthesis	Genf, Switzerland
28.08.05	01.09.05	4th HUPO World Congress - Human Proteome Organisation	Munich, Germany

These are only some of the larger meetings over the next four months where we could meet, discuss your projects, where you can look at our books, and study and browse through them for yourself - and don't forget your author's discount when you buy our books at conferences.
More dates can be found at http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/service/convention/.

"Form follows function" - More and more books go online

"Listen out for the mailman" - Benefits for you

As in the Olympics, the authors of the top three online titles will soon receive a nice keepsake. But all of you can benefit from this bestseller list, since we're offering an additional 5% on top of your author's discount for a limited period on all print editions of the titles listed.

Wiley-VCH books have become a bestselling part of the John Wiley & Sons program throughout the world. As in our last letter, I'd like to draw your attention to some titles from other programs, which we are also offering at an additional 5 % author's discount (for a limited period since your author's discount normally only covers titles from the company you publish with):


* Ascheron, C./ Kickuth, A.: Make Your Mark in Science, ISBN 0-471-65733-6
* Considine, G. D. (ed.): Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry, ISBN 0-471-61525-0
* Greenspan, N. T.: The End of the Certain World, ISBN 0-470-85663-7
* Heller, S.: Freud A to Z, ISBN 0-471-46868-1

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"A Reference for the Rest of Us"

In addition, I'd like to draw your attention to the "...for Dummies" series: Since April of this year, the Dummies books are not only being edited and distributed from Indianapolis (where they originated) and London/Chichester, but also from Wiley-VCH in Germany. Below you can see a snapshot from a recent planning meeting in Weinheim:

From left to right: Marc Mikulich (Vice President, Brand Management), Hartmut Gante (Publishing Director P&T), Kathy Nebenhaus (Vice President, Executive Publis her Dummies), Esther Neuendorf (Editor Dummies), Friedhelm Linke (Marketing Director P&T), Manfred Antoni (Managing Director Wiley-VCH) (left to right). This team gave birth to new ideas for the next publishing program.

The "...for Dummies" series in German can be found at http://www.dummies.wiley-vch.de

Since we are all experts, but dummies, too, here is a selection you might like to choose from:




* Shiels, M. P. / Kernicki, M.: Golf's Short Game For Dummies, ISBN 0-7645-6920-1
* Schlosberg, S. / Neporent, L.: Fitness For Dummies, ISBN 0-7645-7851-0
* Wagner, R. / Mansfield, R.: XML All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, ISBN 0-7645-1653-1
* Levine, J. R. / Levine Young, M. / Everett-Church, R.: Fighting Spam For Dummies, ISBN 0-7645-5965-6

Last but not least ...

I'd like to close this letter with some snapshots from two of our many events over this last springtime.

		The Einstein cake at the Physicists' meeting at the Technical University in Berlin, where we presented not only Einstein books, but also such new titles as "Organische Molekulare Festkörper (Organic Solid State Physics)".
From left to right: Ulrich Eckern (Editor of Annalen der Physik), Markus Schwoerer (author of "Organische Molekulare Festkörper/Organic Solid State Physics"), Jürgen Renn (Max-Planck-Institute of History of Science, Berlin, Einstein expert and organizer of many Einstein events), Alexander Grossmann (Editorial Director, Wiley-VCH)
GDCh literature award for Wiley-VCH book:
		Professor Ute Deichmann (Institute for Genetics, Cologne), author of the book "Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen" received the Gmelin Beilstein medal from Professor Petra Mischnick, Deputy President of the GDCh, for her book on the Hitler's regime and its impact on German science.