  This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains
a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors,
BaBar and Belle, and data taking related issues. Part B discusses tools and
methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results
themselves can be found in Part C.
  Please note that version 3 on the archive is the auxiliary version of the
Physics of the B Factories book. This uses the notation alpha, beta, gamma for
the angles of the Unitarity Triangle. The nominal version uses the notation
phi_1, phi_2 and phi_3. Please cite this work as Eur. Phys. J. C74 (2014) 3026.
