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Safari Books Online Adds SitePoint's
First-Ever Reference Books to its Digital Library
Expanded Collection of Books and Reference Materials Published from User-Generated Feedback
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. – September 9, 2008
Safari Books Online, the leading provider of on-demand digital libraries for technology and business professionals, today announced that it has expanded its collection of books from SitePoint, a media company focused on designers, developers and creative professionals. Included in these new offerings are SitePoint’s first-ever reference books: The Ultimate HTML Reference, by Ian Lloyd; and The Ultimate CSS Reference, by Tommy Olssen and Paul O’Brien.
These and other SitePoint titles were developed through a unique consumer-focused approach to publishing: All of the content was put on SitePoint’s website prior to the books’ publication. Over 400,000 web professionals visited the Reference sites in the first month the material was available online, and left hundreds of comments which were incorporated into the books before they were published a few months later.
The Ultimate HTML Reference is the definitive resource for mastering HTML, focusing on and explaining its many different versions, numerous elements and attributes, and varying ways that browsers interpret the program.
The Ultimate CSS Reference is a complete guide for CSS, including compatibility information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs, and much more.
SitePoint’s website is visited by over two million web professionals every month. This huge quantity of traffic gives SitePoint unique insights into the minds and day-to-day lives of these experts, and helps to drive SitePoint’s book publishing program. Through analyzing the response to articles, blog posts, and comment patterns in its massive online community, SitePoint is able to determine topics of interest for publication.
"These two new reference books are important additions to our collections," said Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of SitePoint. "A great deal of time and effort went into not only compiling all the information, but also testing it in numerous Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera environments so that web developers have one-stop access to browser compatibility information on HTML and CSS."
"SitePoint is a company that shares our belief in the value of user participation in creating digital content," said Mark Brokering, Director of Content Management and Acquisition for Safari Books Online. "They have grown rapidly by engaging their customers in the selection of topics and the development of book content, and their unique publishing model ensures that the books they create meet real needs of the web community."
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About SitePoint
SitePoint is a community-based publishing company that focuses on the needs of web designers and developers. The entire team is dedicated to publishing accurate and timely content, with a particular focus on web standards, best practices, and accessibility. Most important, all of SitePoint’s content is fun, practical, and easy-to-understand. SitePoint encourages their authors to express their personality -- which makes the reading more interesting. They’re committed to never publishing dull, dry texts.
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 offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley, Elsevier, lynda.com, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, Course Technology, and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. IT professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari 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 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 offers a range of business-to-business product mixes and pricing programs for every sized organization, as well as business-to-consumer subscription options for individual users.
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