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The Surfing Yearbook announces it's pre-release launching
The Surfing Yearbook is the most comprehensive coverage of the year in surfing ever published in print

> Surf Shop owners & operators become direct 'Surf Distributors'
Public invited to take advantage of special online pre-release purchase discount

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 11 April, 2009 : - - The most comprehensive print coverage of the year in surfing ever put together will start shipping at the end of April 2009 to distributors and purchasers worldwide. The Surfing Year Book provides the complete package of news, features, results, opinions and photography, offering an insider’s view of everything that matters in each of the world’s surfing regions

The Surfing Yearbook enables you to keep and treasure the full year in surfing in this handsomely bound hard cover gold-leaf lettered 240-page illustrated coffee table book and reference work, that documents and explains everything that happened in the world of surfing in 2008, and previews important events and players of 2009 and beyond

Surfing Yearbook released in Australia

A limited number of copies of The Surfing Yearbook have been released in Australia and are available immediately directly at SYB agents Glide Distribution, and soon in major book stores nationwide. Click here to contact the SYB Australian agency. Back Beach Noosa Surf Shop in Noosa, Queensland, is the first surf retail outlet in the world to offer The Surfing Yearbook.
Click here to contact Back Beach Noosa

Availability and releases elsewhere worldwide will take place late April/early May. Releases in the USA and Europe are scheduled for May 2009, The growing Middle Eastern surfing community may purchase and order copies directly from Surfing Dubai.

More information on releases and availability will be notified shortly.
Click here if you have a specific enquiry

A Who's Who in Surfing:

Renowned surfing journalist Phil Jarratt, as managing editor, led a plethora of surfing’s 'who’s who' in compiling the book, including, Mark Richards, Rabbit Bartholomew, Fernando Aguerre, Pablo Zannochi, Paul Holmes, Tommy Leitch, Nick Carroll, Drew Kampion, Tim Baker, Kirk Wilcox, Nat Young, Shaun Tomson, Tim Bonython, Paul Botha, Jason Childs, Gibus de Soultrait, Sam Bleakley, Bernie Baker, Peter Townend, Reinaldo Andraus, Steve Robertson, Sean Davey, Bernard Testemale, Mickey Smith, Alex Laurel, Greg Rabajac, Swilly, Ted Grambeau, Tim McKenna, Frank Quirarte, John Callahan, Tony Harrington, Jake White, Barry Tuck, Terry Kavanagh, Lucia Griggi, Sobranski Yves, Eric Chauche, Billy Wilmot, Greg Cruse, Aleko Stergiou, Gatica Emiliano, Covered Images, Aquashot and a host of others.

Everything that happened in the world of surfing in 2008 is included in the book, highlights are;-

• The SV Almanac: week by week, all the surfing news
• Analysis and opinion by surfing’s leading opinion makers
• Photo essays from the best surf photographers around the world
• Profiles of all the leading surfers of 2008
• Inside the industry: who’s movin’, who’s shakin’

• Ocean environmental issues, weather and swell reports
• Association of Surfing Professionals year review
• International Surfing Association year review
• Contest results, region by region, from smallest to biggest
• Global directory of surfing products and services

Re-evolution in surfing publications

Endorsed officially by the International Surfing Association and featuring the ASP World Tour Annual Revue, The Surfing Yearbook is the first book ever to cover surfing in all its territories, large and small, around the world. The book has successfully achieved and exceeded what managing editor Phil Jarratt said at the outset of this project as follows;

“What we’re aiming to do with The Surfing Yearbook is to present a fully-rounded picture of surfing that will appeal to everyone in the sport, culture and industry, from the lowliest grom surfing in his first amateur comp to the high-rolling CEO of the biggest surf corporations. We’re targeting the grom first because we know the CEOs will follow."

Phil expanded, "Whilst the book will include contest results from all over the world, competitive surfing is not its sole focus. For every surfer who has to know who won what and how, there is another who is far more interested in swell prediction, the environment and how climate change might affect the surf, or how surfboard design was progressed during the year".

Surf Shops, become direct 'Surf Distributors'

The Surfing Yearbook is natural fit in any surf shop. It compliments the entire surfwear and hardware merchandising aspects of surfing. Become a direct 'surf distributor' offering your clients a true collectors item, a living piece of surfing history, and record of the current state of the surf culture. The Surfing Yearbook is seeking additional surf distributors worldwide, this is a ground-floor opportunity.
Click here for further information.

Special discount offer:

Special online pre-release purchase discount:
The special online pre-release purchase discount offers just over 30% discount on the retail purchase price of the book. The pre-release offer also includes a special 'subsidized' shipping rate to all destinations. This is a remarkable discount offering extraordinary value and will not be repeated, This special pre-release discount offer will cease mid-April 2009. Click here for details




Specifications:

No.of Pages: 240 pages (hi-quality gloss – 128 gr.)
Size: | 250mm wide x 330mm high (9.5” x 13.0”)
Cover: Hard cover, + dust-jacket
Print Run: 30,000 copies
Retail price: US$65.00 .
Chief editor: Phil Jarratt
Publisher: | Surfersvillage / Gibbs Smith
Distribution: | Gibbs Smith / PGW / Surfersvillage
Website: | www.surfingyearook.com*

* The online pre-release special purchase offer will end mid-April


Surfersvillage, producers and publishing partner of the Surfing Year Book, is the world’s largest surfing news website, with more than 22 million visitor sessions a year taking advantage of its global surfing news, results, surf and weather forecasts, feature articles, photo galleries and more. The Surfing Year Book will be offered on-line and also be available from select surf and book stores throughout the surfing world.

www.surfingyearbook.com
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www.gibbs-smith.com







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