Books24x7.com Signs Digital Press, Prima, Nolo and Waveside to Growing List Of Content Partners.NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1999-- -- Broad Industry Support Establishes Books24x7.com As Web's Leading IT Information Service -- Books24x7.com, the Web's foremost authority for technical reference content, announced today that it has added four new technical publishers to its growing roster of premier content providers. Digital Press, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical and RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ), Prima Publishing (www.primapublishing.com), Nolo Press (www.nolo.com), and Waveside Publishing (www.sayican.com) have signed agreements to provide the full electronic text of their best programming and technical computing books for access within the Books24x7.com service. Now available in live controlled release, Books24x7.com (www.books24x7.com) enables IT professionals to retrieve answers to their most specific technical questions and problems, as well as assist them in learning new applications and technologies. With this announcement, twelve of the industry's top publishers have now partnered with Books24x7.com to license their full book content online, further solidifying the Company's position as the established leader in the deployment of high quality digital book content. "We are pleased to be able to broaden our offerings with the addition of these top publishers," said Christopher Pooley, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Books24x7.com. "The specific expertise that can be retrieved from the Books24x7.com service will assist IT professionals worldwide in addressing the mission-critical challenges they face every day." As part of Reed Elsevier, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts-based Digital Press brings to Books24x7.com content from one of the world's leading publishing organizations that specializes in scientific, professional, and business information. "The quality of digital content delivered by Books24x7.com is unparalleled," said Phil Sutherland, Publisher of Digital Press. "We especially value the continuous brand reinforcement provided by the service whenever our content is displayed to the user. Books24x7.com provides the strategic online reach we are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ." Among other books, Prima Publishing, based in Rocklin, California Rocklin is a city in Placer County, California. It is a primarily residential community located north of Sacramento. It shares borders with Roseville, Loomis, and Lincoln. As of 2006, the city's population was estimated to be 50,920 people[1]. , will license its world-class series of technical reference manuals on administering SAP (NYSE: SAP) application environments. SAP's complex enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. applications are relied upon by thousands of corporations worldwide. Stacy Hiquet, Publisher for Prima Publishing's Prima Tech division, commented, "We have selected Books24x7.com as a partner because of their publisher-friendly business model, strong searching technology and market- leading capabilities for creating rich digital equivalents of high-end technical books." Nolo Press is renowned for its do-it-yourself books addressing legal issues. Titles from the Nolo catalogue that will be featured in the Books24x7.com service include books for developers on protecting technology copyrights, trademarks and patents. Waveside Publishing is a leading publisher of titles for Dragon Systems' digital speech products. Both companies are headquartered in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. . Christopher Pooley, President and CEO of Books24x7.com, will be speaking on "Lessons in content Aggregation: How Publishers Can Profit from the Next Millennium's Most Important Trend in eBook Publishing" at Electronic Book '99 on September 21st in Gaithersburg, MD. About Books24x7.com Books24x7.com, based in Norwood, MA, is a leading aggregator of branded, high-value, business-to-business content offered on a subscription basis over the Web. The Company is recognized as a leading electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. partner to the computer book publishing industry, including Macmillan Computer Publishing (Que and Sams), MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, O'Reilly & Associates, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Sybex, and Wiley Computer Publishing among others. The Company is venture backed and its investors include Sigma Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Whitman Capital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT). For more information, visit www.books24x7.com. |
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