Shaker Verlag

The Shaker Verlag, based in Maastricht and Duke Rath ( postal address Aachen ) was founded in 1986 by Khaled Shaker and dedicated to scientific publications, mainly monographs and dissertations. In 2010, over 20,000 works available, both as a book and as a PDF file that is available for immediate download.

In addition, more than 400 publication series ( institutional series, research results, and meeting and conference proceedings of European events and meetings ) are published.

In 2007, the subsidiary Shaker Media GmbH was founded in Herzogenrath, which is a hybrid solution between the actually publishing activities and the Book-on -demand technology and in contrast to the parent company focuses on the general book market. Thus, although everyone can like other book- on-demand services at no additional cost a finished book upload, the decision about whether it is published, but meets an editor for the publishing house, who takes over the further handling and care in a conventional manner.

Shaker was also known for his aggressive marketing as unsolicited email messages and mail.