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Retail, libraries, social media & direct sales to companies

Our media is sold and read worldwide - including via Amazon, Apple iBookstore, Google, Thalia, Hugendubel, Barnes and Nobel, via social media and in direct sales to companies. Below you will find a detailed overview.

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Our media in 300.000 libraries worldwide

Our media can be found in over 300.000 libraries and use the following providers for this purpose:

German National Library

Our media are listed in the holdings of the German National Library.

Odilo

International libraries

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Distribution of digital content to libraries and companies

bibliotheca

The provider from the USA supplies libraries in Germany and Switzerland via a so-called cloud library.

DiViBib

Die Onleihe - digital lending portals for libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as the Goethe-Institut.

EBSCO

Sale or loan of specialist literature to libraries worldwide.

OverDrive

Deliverer from the USA. Digital loan models for more than 33.000 libraries. There is also an OverDrive app that end customers can use to view the library catalog.

Mackin

Mackin serves over 50.000 institutions in the United States.

Swiss specialist information

Sale or hire purchase of the eBooks to institutional customers worldwide via the e-book library (EBL), ebrary and ProQuest platforms eBook Central as well ebooks.com

Sebina OpenLibrary

Sebina Open Library is a digital cloud platform with integrated library system used by thousands of Italian libraries.

sales figures

Our media is always at the top of the bestseller lists and sales rankings - for example, here you can find our titles “Saying no without feeling guilty” and “Dealing with the boss” on Amazon Press reviews and customer feedback about our books here.

Sales & target group
Sales & target group

Our media sold to millions of readers worldwide

We sell our media in hundreds of shops worldwide.

Amazon Kindle Shop (amazon.de)

The media are purchased and available directly on the Kindle readers and / or the Kindle apps for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android and Blackberry.

We are also participating in the Kindle Unlimited Amazon subscription model: Readers can read our media here for free.

The sales areas include Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Amazon Kindle Store (amazon.com)

The connection of amazon.com with the sales areas USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil as well as India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand is also possible on request.

Google Play

International distribution for our media via the Google Play Store.

Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),

Purchase and availability of the eBooks directly from the iBooks application (iTunes) on OS X and iOS.

Own stores in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal , Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, United Kingdom, United States of America, Cyprus.

Barnes and Noble

Selling the media via your own reader nook, in your own web shop and nook apps on Android and iOS. The sales focus is on the United States.

Baker & Tailor

Baker & Taylor is a traditional American distributor of books to public libraries and schools.

Kobo

Selling the media via your own reader as well as your own web shop and Kobo apps on Windows.

Kobo.com is represented in over 190 countries worldwide, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Canada, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, the Netherlands , Austria, Philippines, Portugal, Switzerland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, United States of America, Cyprus. Here is an overview of the shops supplied:

  • WHSmith (UK)
  • American Booksellers Association - variety of participant websites (USA)
  • Walmart (USA)
  • Angus and Robertson (Australia)
  • Collins (Australia)
  • Rakuten (Japan, USA, France)
  • La Feltrinelli (Italy)
  • Mondadori (Italy)
  • Livraria Cultura (Brazil)
  • Chapters Indigo (Canada)
  • FNAC (France, Spain, Portugal)
  • PaperPlus (New Zealand)
  • Gandhi (Mexico)
  • Librería Porrúa (Mexico)
  • National Book Store (Philippines)
  • La Central (Spain)
  • DundR (Turkey)
  • Idefix (Turkey)

Tolino Alliance

Since entering the market in March 2013, the tolino alliance has successfully established itself as one of the leading brands for digital reading in German-speaking countries.

  • Tolino Media GmbH and Co. KG (formerly Pubbles): Selling the media via its own readers and pads as well as via the affiliated dealers.
  • bol.de: belongs to Thalia with platforms in Germany and the Netherlands
  • books.ch: belongs to Orell Füssli Thalia AG
  • buch.de: belongs to Thalia
  • buecher.de: belongs to worldview
  • Hugendubel: with own platforms as well as the end customer platform http://www.ebook.de
  • Libri GmbH: with the attached bookstores
  • Libris Blz. BV: Platform in the Netherlands
  • Osiandersche Buchhandlung GmbH: Book trading company since 1596.
  • otto-media.de: At the Otto Group's Otto Media platform, you can buy books, eBookOrder s, magazines, DVDs and games.
  • Standaard Boekhandel: Platform in Belgium
  • Thalia: with own platforms in Germany, Austria, Switzerland Stand: Mai 2018
  • worldview: with own platforms in Germany, Austria, Switzerland

ciando

Sells our media both through its own web shop and to affiliated dealers and libraries.

  • http://www.ciando.com, http://www.ciando.de, http://www.ciando.at, http://www.ciando.ch, www2.ciando.com
  • Aldi e-books
  • Hofer e-books
  • Aneta Giec-Pacharzyna
  • Auwarter Media GmbH
  • borro media GmbH
  • Bookstore “Miss Marple's”
  • CeDe Shop AG
  • Conrad Electronics SE
  • Delta X Verlag eU
  • ebuch-laden24.de, Thomas Hackenberg
  • SERIOUS Logistic
  • Ex Libris AG
  • Georg Blendl Buchhandlung und Antiquariat GmbH & Co. KG
  • Herman Hrobak
  • Hugendbubel Fachinformationen GmbH
  • Koch, Neff & Volckmar GmbH
    Lehmann's Media GmbH
  • Mannheimer Morgen large printing works and publishing house GmbH
  • Markus Mölders - Mediawurm.com
  • media control GmbH
  • Michael Gronert
  • minibook.eu, Christof Jaufenthaler
  • minibook.eu, Christof Jaufenthaler
  • Morawa Book and Media GmbH
  • MyGoodPlace, Alexander Klement
  • New Crown Consultants Establishment
  • Online bookstore Regula Seiler
  • Petra Lehnert
  • PBM psychology book and media trading company mbH
  • Quolibris GmbH
  • SCM Shop Fallersleben, bookstore Andreas König
  • Shop plus plus Ltd
  • Solon Book Service GmbH
  • taz publishing and sales GmbH
  • Thieme & Frohberg GmbH
  • ims Internationaler Medien Service GmbH & Co. KG
  • Isolagra Ltd

ceebo (MediaControl)

Sales are made via other connected dealers and shops. Trading partners supplied via ceebo are:

  • Stein'sche bookstore
  • AAVAA publishing house
  • Amahoff Bookstore
  • Ansenso GmbH
  • Antiqua-Online
  • Aquensis Publishing House
  • Athene Media Publishing House
  • Attatroll bookstore
  • Besold book paper
  • Best Off-Verlag
  • Bildner Verlag (readersplanet.de)
  • bookhit-GmbH
  • Börsenmedien
  • Braunbarth bookstore
  • Book trade office
  • Book and media
  • Books Keuck
  • Bookstore Backhaus
  • Bookstore Brunner
  • Bookstore Georg Blendl
  • Bookstore Heyn
  • Bookstore Wirthmiller
  • buchmaxx
  • Book Center AG
  • Comelivres AG
  • Connectare Marketing
  • Dieter Kroos
  • Easy Book
  • eBook-Eddie
  • eBook-Fever
  • eBookSky
  • eBookstr.de
  • Real publisher
  • One A media
  • eLesia publishing house
  • G. Umbreit
  • Listen well! publishing company
  • ImCoSys AG
  • Inkpot UG
  • INTU
  • Law bookstore Gabriele Haßlocher
  • Kohlibri René Kohl
  • Kubon and Sagner
  • Liesegang
  • Life Media Group
  • Maciej Klimkiewicz
  • Mag. Holger Dominik Steinbichler
  • Massurgo Publishing House
  • Metzler bookstore
  • Minimax publishing house Judith Arndt
  • ML Magazine Load
  • My eBooks
  • Neufeld publishing house
  • Neukirchen publishing company
  • New Crown Consultants Establishment
  • Ecumenical press forum
  • Online-Ebook-Shop.com
  • OnlineKiosk GmbH
  • pferdia tv, Thomas Vogel
  • Pocketbook Readers
  • renabuch.de second-hand bookshop and publishing house
  • Typesetting bookstore
  • Schulkin GbR
  • snapload
  • Softdistribution
  • Straelener Buchhaus
  • TVZ Theological Publishing House Zurich
  • university book Kassel
  • VARIA system
  • Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia
  • veron insurance broker

libreka

Sales are made via other connected dealers and shops. About libreka! Supplied trading partners are:

buchhandel.de

More than 800 online shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are connected via the MVB end customer platform.

Marketing Association Austria

Stationary retail companies in Austria and South Tyrol with numerous branches are connected:

  • Burgenland bookstores: Desch-Drexler, Nentwich
  • Lower Austria bookstores: Alexowsky, Bücher-Schütze, Bücherstube Horn, Schmidl, Spazierer, Thiel, Zweymüller
  • Upper Austria bookshops: Joh. Haas, Neugebauer, Veritas
  • Salzburg bookstores: Motzko, Pfeifenberger, Rupertus
  • Styria bookstores: Freudensprung, Plautz, city bookstore Liezen
  • Vienna bookshops: bestseller in EKAZENT-Hietzing, bestseller Millennium City, Freudensprung GmbH, ÖBV, Südwind Buchwelt

eBook

With around 600 member bookstores.

G. Umbreit GmbH and Co. KG

With various affiliated shops.

Sack Media Group - Trade Media

Sack Fachmedien from Düsseldorf has specialized in law, economics and taxation as a specialist retailer since 1927.

Other smaller dealers

libreka! also supplies numerous other smaller publishers and dealers:

Yourbook shop

Yourbook-Shop is an international social books platform. It combines online bookstores and a literary community and offers a digital service for all participants in the book market.

  • Alexowsky - books, magazines, paper, games
  • Alpha bookstore
  • Alpha bookstore Mannheim
  • Asaph Buch- und Musikvertrieb GmbH
  • Athesia Buch GmbH
  • Besold Buch - Papier eV
  • FOUNTAIN BIBLE PANORAMA
  • Brunnen Verlag GmbH
  • Book club Meran
  • Bookstore Brunner GmbH
  • Dynamis bookstore
  • Bookstore Franz Dim GmbH
  • Bookstore Johannes Heyn
  • Bookstore Kisch and Co.
  • Wirthmiller bookstore
  • Buchwelten Mag. (FH) Herta Emmer GmbH
  • Carl Huebscher GmbH
  • ceBooks
  • German Bible Society
  • DocCheck Medical Services
  • dradiwaberl uni-bookshop
  • E-COON
  • Ennsthaler GmbH and Co. KG
  • Reference book Judge
  • Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG
  • GES Verlag UG limited liability
  • Harry Buzzel
  • Heinrich Köndgen GmbH
  • INTU GesmbH
  • Kawohl publishing house
  • Kral-Mödling-Buch GmbH
  • Kuppitsch book trade GesmbH
  • MANZ'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH
  • Mixtvision Digital GmbH
  • NWB Verlag GmbH and Co. KG
  • OnlineKiosk GmbH
  • Otto u. Hans Lauf. Bookstore
  • Ralf Jordan - historical book table
  • Rheinberg book
  • S. Toeche-Mittler Verlagbuchhandlung
  • Schachtner GmbH and Co. KG
  • Schäffer Verlag
  • SEMDOC Fachbuchhandel Neubrandenburg
  • Shop Avanti
  • Spazierer GmbH book and paper shop
  • Tele Entertainment UG
  • Tyrolia Publishing House
  • Mail order bookstore Che and Chandler
  • VUB Printmedia

Our media in subscription and flat rate models for millions of readers

In addition to retail and libraries, subscription models for all types of digital reading are becoming more and more interesting. With these models, readers have unlimited access to all of our media for a monthly fee.

iReader

Flat rate model from Appel: iReader offers free access to a huge, constantly growing library of books.

KoboPlus

Flat rate model from Kobo.

Storytel

E-books subscriptions for the mobile phone.

bookmates

Mobile reading app with subscription model.

legitimacy

Polish reading platform.

perlego

Perlego is an online digital library focused on providing academic, professional and non-fiction books. It is a subscription-based service that offers users unlimited access to these lyrics for the duration of their subscription.

Scribd

US subscription-based reading platform

Skoobe

German subscription model. The reader can borrow media via the skoobe app (Android and iOS).

24symbols

Subscription model from Spain, works closely with the partners of the Freenet group

Social media & direct sales

Our media is also distributed via social media and directly to companies.

Sales & target group
Sales & target group

Sales via social media

Of course, we also reach our customers on social media. Our subscribers are:

We are also represented in numerous topic-specific groups and channels:

  • Best-of-HR-Verlag news page: 3.000+ members
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag Xing profile: 800+ contacts on Xing
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag LinkedIn profile: approx. 3.300+ followers & contacts
  • We reach a further 30 focus pages & groups with 1 million+ members: topics including HR, future, innovation, entrepreneurship, careers, digital, further training or MICE.
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag FB page: approx. 1900 followers & subscribers
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag FB group HR & Job: Private discussion group, 100+ members
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag FB group Better Work & Life: Public group, 11.000+ members
  • We reach another 45 groups with 700.000+ members: topics including HR, future, innovation, entrepreneurship, career, digital, further education, leadership, health, travel or MICE.
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag Instagram magazine profile: 9.000+ followers
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag Instagram profile: 3.500+ followers
  • Best-of-HR-Verlag Pinterest professional: 8.500+ followers, 300.000 views / month
  • We reach another 20 boards on Pinterest with 75.000+ followers: topics including HR, future, innovation, entrepreneurship, career, digital, further training, leadership, health, travel or MICE.

Customer target groups in network and direct sales

For our cross-media offering, we have identified 4 core target groups for our media and products, which we also reach directly via our networks:

Manager & Employer

Our recipients include federal ministries, board members & top managers of DAX companies and institutions - including companies like Microsoft or Siemens, IBM, Bertelsmann, Würth, SAP or Daimler. We have for government agencies and companies such as Samsung, OTTO, Randstad (References) We are also partners of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the ZEIT publishing house and accompany media events with celebrities such as Barack Obama.

Our readers and customers are important employers and decision-makers from the highest management levels as well as from human resources, communication, marketing, further training and consulting. You are quality-conscious and committed with a great interest in technology, recruiting, careers, business and lifestyle.

Leaders & innovators

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® sets trends in the media and is also relevant for people who are innovators looking for inspiration and business ideas. we influence media reports and opinions, were mentioned several times in the Wikipedia references and will detectable by media representatives such as ARD, Spiegel Online, Welt, DRadio Wissens, ZEIT, Wirtschaftswoche or the science department of NDR television and used for research.

By reception in the media, in university publications and textbooks, by lectures among others at Deutsche Bahn, Bundeswehr o. Various universities and through the organization of international Events the blog multiplies its reach.

Successful & work-life balancers

Lots of people trust Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®when it comes to your own career. You are specifically looking for information that promotes personal progress and further development.

Trust that pays off: the publisher Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® is funded by the state for individual projects and also by Professoren and university representatives as well as by institutions and universities recommended.

Our newsletter is subscribed to by Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. These include the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Job seekers & young professionals

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® is made explicitly by ZEIT ONLINE recommended for young professionals and offers extensive material on topics such as application, job search, career entry, career orientation and high potentials.

We are also committed to the interests of skilled workers and were, for example, at one ARD report through the mediation of interlocutors and research. With our institute, we also offer young people financial support in the form of a Scholarship.

This is what the publisher offers you Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® or

The publisher also works internationally and offers texts in English language which allows us to significantly increase the reach of our texts, books and eCourses.

The state-sponsored publisher Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®, awarded the Global Business Award as Publisher of the Year, has 20 years of experience with partners and customers such as the Federal Ministry of Education, Samsung, DELL and Telekom. Under the motto “Information as desired!” The publisher offers print and online media – in the form of magazines, books, editions, eCourses or corporate publications. All information is available in German and English.

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® is also registered as a trademark with the German Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to the eLearning-on-demand service, the publisher supports companies with the CreARTiv program “Think Out of the Box” as an innovation consultancy in managing transformation processes and is committed to sustainable projects. Behind it is the German top 10 blogger Simone Janson, referenced in Wikipedia, ARD, FAZ, ZEIT, WELT and Wirtschaftswoche.

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