User:O800alextech

About Me
That's me, Peter Brunner living in Frankfurt, Germany. I felt in love with the Alexander Technique because I love my wife Gabriele Breuninger, who was trained by Chris Stevens (1943-2003). I met many Alexander Technique teachers from all over the world during various congresses, meetings and seminars and learnt to recognize the differences how to teach Frederick Matthias Alexander's work. I had many lessons and try to say thank you to the AlexTech community by offering my skills to anybody who needs support in computer science and communications.

My first AT project was a list of AT related books I started in 2002 because I heard many teachers saying there are no books available. It was true in a sense that even on amazon only about 20 titles showed up and most book retailers never heard about this method. My aim was and is to improve the visibility and availability of AT related books, CDs, DVDs, ...

I ended up with a long list of all kind of media and became a book retailer / dsitributor and publisher. My first book (Körperdynamik ) - the German translation of Michael Gelbs Body Learning became a success. First 2 years I sold mainly to AT teachers then I was able to get listed in the catalog of major book distributor like libri.de and Gardners.com. I sold all copies and the second edition will follow soon.

I know only very few publisher who are willing to wait year for return of investment. Todays publisher want to sell an edition of 2000 copies at least within a year - which is very difficult for a niche market like the Alexander Technique. They try to sell maybe 2 years and the rest got sold to so called rest sellers. This seems to be good because the title is getting cheaper but that also means the value is decreasing. The problem is that no book shop owner is no longer interested on offering the book nor buying from a rest seller. It is available through some book platforms on the Internet only - which is in Europe less than a third of all inhabitants. (ref |Eurostats EuroStat ) in US it is even less (ref census.gov ).

Let's work together to find even better alternatives to get publications related to the Alexander Technique into all major book stores.

My favorite pages

 * My wife's web site: http://Alexandertechnik-Frankfurt.de
 * Favorite page #2