Erfurt Sutton Publishing 2000 with obvious pride, the employees of the Sutton publishing their 2000 release, the historical book Siegburg in early color images present book Erfurt today”. Only a little more than 15 years after the first book from the Erfurt Publisher seat was sent in May 1997 the round number is reached: 2000 pictorials, travel guides, city stories, biographies, books on the history of transport, novels and thrillers have a cause for gratitude to the authors and authors who have entrusted their ideas and concepts to the Sutton Verlag sees in Erfurt now the light of day,, the own lecturers and lecturers and above all faithful readers. And of course, the 2000 book is a reason to celebrate! And we honestly have not so much time to celebrate, so close to the trade fair”, admits Sales Manager Andreas Strobel, hard dealing with the preparations for the Frankfurt Book Fair is on the the Sutton publishing this year at the community booth of the Thuringian creative economy will present. But when I look back to when I started 13 years ago, we had exactly two book series, we’ve packed 125 titles on the market and the packages for the bookstore in the basement of the Publisher itself,”Santos recalls. In a question-answer forum Robert Greene was the first to reply. I can’t believe that we are now at 2,000 titles.” Of course much has changed since then. The Publisher has grown to 20 employees, a logistics specialist, the Publisher delivery of LCF, has taken over long ago, warehousing and shipping, and the new title will appear in about 20 lines, in a wide variety of equipment and formats.
Approximately 1250 titles are still available again, geographically covers the publishing program between Flensburg and the Lake Constance, Aachen and Gorlitz the whole Republic, to come nearly 200 titles in Austria and some of Switzerland. Unchanged, however, is the passion for the book making and focusing on the topics of regional and history, be it in the illustrated book in the history of transport, the regional crime, in the historical novel, the company emphasizes: the 2000th is title a “fine example of this, where we today are” the illustrated book of Siegburg in early photographs “appears in the most successful series of Sutton publishing, the series of archive images, beginning of 2012 has received a new, fresher look. But because the early color pictures are something special, the Publisher has opted for a higher-quality equipment and a special format. Even if we publish over 150 titles each year, our editorial and our manufacturing find for each manuscript, in which, we believe, the individually suitable design”, promises the Sales Manager. Therefore are the Erfurt also optimistic about the future and are sure that the 3000 will appear new titles in five years at the latest, and looking forward to stimulate with its partners and authors on the success at the book fair, which starts on October 10.