Safari Books Online Adds Leading Technical
Publisher Apress to Its Digital Library

Partnership Increases Value of Online Reference Source

Sebastopol, CA - November 3, 2008
Safari Books Online, the leading provider of an on-demand digital library for technology and business professionals, today announced the addition of Apress books as a direct result of requests from Safari Books Online’s growing base of corporate customers and individual users. Seventy new Apress titles are available to Safari Books Online subscribers which cover topics ranging from Open Source to Java to .Net.

“We’ve had many requests for Apress titles over the years, so this prestigious line of technical books is a valuable addition to our library,” said Mark Brokering, director of content management and acquisitions for Safari Books Online. “Apress has a well-earned reputation for publishing high-quality books for IT professionals and software developers.”

Safari Books Online provides the most current and comprehensive library of business and technology publications, offering more than 7,500 books, articles and videos to its subscribers. In fact, the publishers contributing to the content on Safari Books Online own 85 percent of the market for technology content.

“Safari Books Online’s client base is a perfect match with Apress’ content,” said Paul Manning, president of Apress. “We’ve heard from many friends and customers recently that they wanted Apress books available on the Safari Books Online platform. In the end, that feedback is what drove the partnership.”

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online, founded in 2001 as a joint venture between pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc., and Pearson Education, is an on-demand digital library delivering expert content from the leading authors in technology and business. Safari Books Online offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, lynda.com, IBM Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. Technology professionals, software developers, Web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training.

Thousands of books, prepublication manuscripts, short documents, articles and instructional videos are available. Safari Books Online is an essential, always-on business tool that is rapidly changing the way corporate, academic and training organizations access information and is enabling increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari Books Online offers a range of business-to-business product mixes and pricing programs for every size organization, as well as business-to-consumer options for individual users.

About Apress

Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success. Apress and friends of ED are part of Springer Science + Business Media. Read more at http://www.apress.com/info.

Contacts

Safari Books Online
Paige Mazzoni / Rose St. Clair » 707-827-4139
rstclair@safarijv.com
or
Schwartz Communications
Laurie Falconert » 415-512-0770
safari@schwartz-pr.com

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