Today we have published the first pool billiard books from our catalogue in e-book format. This step marks the entry of Litho-Verlag into the new digital world. The books can be downloaded via the new portal www.billiardliterature.com. They can be read free of charge for a short period, but then you will need a serial number and activation code which can be purchased in our shop. The prices for the books are significantly lower than prices for printed books, but with the one restriction that you cannot print out e-books from your PC at home. E-books give you the chance to find out exactly what a book’s about, and to be able to read it quickly and free of charge all over the world. The entire range of Litho-Verlag’s pool billiard books will be available online shortly.

The PAT-Products-Flyer is now available. Only Merchants can oder this Flyer with the normal order without more shipping costs, or only the flyer with shipping costs.

With PAT Start the task of creating a training and an evaluation system (PAT), recognized and recommended by the world body, the WPA, designed for both beginners and ambitious leisure time Pool-Billiard players, has been achieved.
Practically without any previous knowledge, guided by a main thread, it is now possible to learn how to play with cue and balls. Particularly when cooperating with a (PAT-) coach, great progress and an almost continuous improvement is practically pre-programmed.
At the same time PAT Start will enable an international comparison of one‘s own ability and the ability of other players through the online PAT-system database.
The further and more demanding levels of the PAT-system (PAT 1-3) is only one of more options offered an examined and a basis-educated player.

The PAT 3 DVD is available. Based on the PAT-system, Ralph Eckert (book author and European coach of the EPBF) and Andreas Huber (coach of the German national pool team, European coach and DSF commentator) explain visually how to play pool on highes level. There is as well an audio CD included discussing psychological aspects of top level pool.

We are going for Summer holydays!
Please keep attention, that all orders cannot go out between 7th – 29th July. So please be patient. After 30th July we will be back and send all out immediately

Thanks and
Best wishes
Thomas Lindemann
Litho-Publishers

after this theme, the Litho Publishers once again this year spend all the money we normally used for customer presents to the Back to Life-Project for leprosy people and street kids in Benares / India.

We please you to support this or other projects as a sign of the Christmas spirit and wish you a merry and peaceful Christmas 2006. God bless you.

Yours

Litho-Publishers

Recent IPT champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany was quoted just prior to his finals match in Las Vegas: “I think the players have to become more professional athletes with the format, and now with the money, they have the opportunity, if they’re smart, to get a coach, get a personal trainer, and work on their game. That’s what I want to do.” Thorsten is one of the highest-rated players (813 – PAT 3) yet to take the internationally-standardized Playing Ability Test, better known as “PAT.” The system of drills was devised by pro player Ralph Eckert, the national German billiard coach Andreas Huber and World Confederation of Billiard Sports President Jorgen Sandman (the WCBS is the permanent member for cue sports to the International Olympic Committee). The world-governing body for pool, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), has recently endorsed the program as well.

At the superbilliardsexpo Litho-publishers fixed two contracts with wholesalers for the United States. One is Bebob (www.bebobpublishing.com) and the second is Sterling (www.sterling-gaming.com).

With this step we help a lot of retailers and as well readers to get our books like Modern Pool, Basics in Poolbilliard and the Poolbilliard Workouts in the US and Canada.

In a few days the Superbilliardsexpo (16-19 March 2006) will be open in Valley Forge, PA at the conventioncenter. Litho-Publishers will be present at booth L24 and offer the famous books of Ralph Eckert (Modern Pool) and brandnew the first part of the Pool School: Basics in Pool Billiard.

As well we present the official WPA Playing Ability Test (PAT) writen by Ralph Eckert, Jorgen Sandman and Andreas Huber. For more details please have a look at: www.pat-billiard.com or have look in our shop.

The Basics of Pool Billiard by THE POOL SCHOOL, is now available. Please read more about the book here and make your order to get this book.

The Basics of Pool Billiards is based on the knowledge of Jerry Briesath the founder of the Poolschool USA.

In July 2000 Mike Shamos worte an intresting article in Billiard Digest, one of the most well know billiard magazines in the US. In his article 'Broken Rack' he comes to the following resume: "One major difference between our biliard scene and that of Asia and Europe has to do with the way learning is passed along. Most Americans learn by spending a frightening amount of time in pool halls. [...] In Europe and Asia there is a much grater degree of one-on-one instruction, probably because the players are not trying to earn a living hustling each other and therefore have nothing to lose from sharing their secrets."

"European billiard publishing is completely different. It produces a steady diet of advanced instructional books".

And now is the first book "Modern Pool" by Ralph Eckert is out in english. And it will be followed in the next months by another book: "Basics in Pool Billiard" by the POOL SCHOOL GERMANY. The trainers Uwe Sander and David Alfieri, self instructors learned their job by Jerry Breisath, and with his blessing, this frist part will bring the theoretics of the methods from the POOL SCHOOL back to your home.

In Germany these books from Eckert and the Pool School are one of the most sold billiard trainings books. Why do you believe, German Billiard Players are so successfull?