Franzis Verlag
The Franzis Verlag GmbH belongs to the oldest technical publishers in Germany and is part of the WEKA Media Group. The company is based Haar near Munich.
Origins and history
In 1920, immediately after the First World War, Francis went out of Franz's printing house was established in 1828 - hence the name - in the center of Munich forth and accompanied the emerging medium of radio and radio to magazines. First Book publications on wireless technology appeared in the 1930s.
In 1948 a new company as a specialist book and magazine publisher. Until the late 1980s, the books published were companions of the consumer electronics boom. In the 1980s, the publisher also industrial electronics and the computer turned on.
1991 acquired the WEKA Holding the Franzis Verlag and gathered three years later Francis with 16 magazines such as connect, PC Magazine, PCgo, electronics, Markt & Technik and Computer Reseller News in today WEKA Media Group in Haar near Munich under a roof.
Portfolio
The Franzis Verlag sees its emphasis on books in the areas of experimentation, photography and programming.
The " experiment " was developed from the former electronic textbook program, the traditional core business of the publisher and addressed today with nearly 100 learning packages available, experimental sets and kits an audience who devotes his spare time with technology. The field ranges from bat detectors, radio kits, V8 engine models to functional Stirling engines. The coming from the USA Maker Movement provides Franzis since 2010 as an official distributor of Arduino for the maker movement required boards and in nearly 25 book titles and information about the kids' computer Raspberry Pi
Since 2008, the Franzis Verlag sells in the " Pictures" HDR software and sees itself as the market leader in this segment with its own development HDR Projects. In addition to offering more than 30 photo software products for amateur and professional photographers and over 100 titles comprehensive photo book program.
In the " Programming" including the continuously available since 1997 and now published in 9th edition " HTML Manual " by Stefan Münz is offered, the publisher provides the product with over 150,000 copies sold as a German-language reference work for HTML. Nearly 80 additional titles are available as printed or electronic book.