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22.10.2014

Dear <<First Name>> <<Last Name>>,

Have you taken a look at our product gallery recently? If not, we think you should. It’s coming along very nicely with lots of themes and topics covered. However, we’re always keen on seeing yet more of your creative ideas. Pictures, illustrations, combinations of images and texts, graphic art – a calendar is the perfect vessel for a wide range of content options. Don’t forget, calendar season is in full swing now! So, get your thinking caps on, be creative and surprise us with your ideas.

And if you want to pleasantly surprise our jury who assesses all the work submitted via our self-publishing platform, make sure to read this newsletter and “Meet the jury” … 

Best wishes from
Your CALVENDO Team
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Meet the jury ...

… well, not personally but we’d like to give you an insight into how it works since the quality check performed by our expert panel is a vital element of the service Calvendo offers. In particular for all the newcomers using our platform (welcome!), here’s an overview of our criteria for publication and how the jury decides if a product will be released – or not:

After submitting your project, the Calvendo jury will contact you with one of the three following messages: Your project has been released for publication straight away (hooray!), you’re being asked to make certain corrections (all in your best interest!) or your project has been rejected (shame – but try again!). The jury bases these decisions on a set of criteria in order to establish the overall quality of a project:

  • craftsmanship

  • creative achievement and degree of originality

  • technical quality

  • completeness and relevancy of the information for imprint and product description

  • legally admissible and ethically unobjectionable

  • satisfaction of the needs of the respective target group

  • potential demand in the market (i.e. will it sell)

  • does it fit with the Calvendo publishing programme

Each of these elements is important. If, for example, your calendar is technically and visually absolutely brilliant, but missing a product description, it can’t be released because trade catalogues won’t list your calendar without one. As an innovative self-publishing platform, Calvendo needs to make sure to be taken seriously by all the partners we work with in the book retail sector. And this in turns also means that we can’t accept every product submitted to us. In the end, our jury’s decision is final and binding.
 
In order to make things easier, we’ve put together extensive guidelines in our FAQs covering everything from which fonts to use to how to design a cover. And: Take a look at our checklist before submitting your project. It’ll help! By the way, help - one thing our jury definitely does, is help you, by giving you advice and suggestions how to improve your project.
Try it and start now!


                     
Hip to be square  


As some of you know, the Calvendo editor has been given a boost and you can now also set up calendars in the popular square format. What you might not know yet, however, is that our brilliant techies have worked hard on a software update to make designing square calendars much easier. See for yourself and give it a go!


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