about us

What's in a name? Suite101.com's  door is open to the curious novice looking for a "101" intro to any of our 400 topics, but it's also a meeting place for 7 million readers and 500,000 members each month to ask 101 burning questions of the day.

With 12 years online, over 100,000 articles and 1,000 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101.com is dedicated to delivering quality expertise and writing increasingly rare in the online world. 

We aim for the elegance and ground-floor appeal our name implies, but we're also evolving a suite of features for which we know readers and writers alike will be banging down the door. Drop in for an eclectic soiree of topical commentary and candid advice - you've found the genuine article.

Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with an office in Berlin. It has been a successful consumer internet operation for over 10 years and has an international full-time staff of 14.

Dr. Boris Wertz of Nexopia.com and Abebooks.com co-owns the majority of the company with Burda Digital Ventures of Munich, the venture capital arm of Hubert Burda Media, a 1.5 billion dollar company in business for over 110 years and publishing over 250 magazines in 28 countries worldwide.

Suite101 Media Inc operates Suite101.com and Suite101.de, two general interest online magazines. For curious readers these sites are online magazines offering authoritative articles, reviews, and expert commentary written exclusively by aspiring professional writers. For freelance writers and journalists, these sites provide a new outlet for their work while delivering an audience of millions per month.