"Every year, the international publishing community arrives at Frankfurt with the thought going through their heads "Here we are again - here we go again".

We see ourselves stepping onto a conveyor belt that will throw us off at the end of a hectic week back onto our trains, buses, planes, and cars to return to our offices all over the world. Why do we do this to ourselves and to others?

Well, we meet and renew ties and strengthen cooperation with our partners, agents and friends from every corner of the Earth. We make many new contacts and discuss Thieme's special approach to information publishing with them for the first time.

Each year, we see that our trade partners and our professional customers are looking more and more closely at our special brand of publishing and finding where our titles fit into their daily professional practice.

Thieme's brand of product consists not only of a very high quality of illustration and printing but is also exemplary through the strong and effective didactic concept contained in each work. This didactic component of Thieme's publications has been developed and refined continuously over decades and has even successfully faced the challenge of the new information media. Our print products have improved.

They are extremely efficient in communicating the latest knowledge for almost immediate application in practice. They save the professional user time but do not compromise on quality.

And now we are working hard to transfer or convert the Thieme brand to the electronic book media. The first results will soon be shown at fairs like Frankfurt.

Our message is getting through more strongly every year, to our trade partners, to our readers, at conferences and at book fairs like Frankfurt.

That is why we go to Frankfurt - to meet customers from all over the world.

See you at Frankfurt next year, same place, same time, same conveyor belt."

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