Birmingham-based IT publisher Packt Publishing is about to publish its
1000th title. Packt books are renowned among developers for being
uniquely practical and focused, but you’d be forgiven for not yet being in the
know – Packt books cover highly specific tools and technologies which you might
not expect to see a high quality book on.
Packt is certain that in its 1000 titles there is at least one book that
everyone in IT will find useful right away, and are inviting anyone to choose
and download any one of its eBooks for free over its celebration weekend of
28-30th Sep 2012. Packt is also opening its online library for a
week for free to give customers an easy to way to research their choice of free
eBook.
Packt supports many of the Open Source projects covered by its books
through a project royalty donation, which has contributed over $400,000 to Open
Source projects up to now. As part of the celebration Packt is allocating
$30,000 to share between projects and authors as part of the weekend giveaway,
allocated based on the number of copies of each title downloaded.
Dave Maclean, founder of Packt Publishing:
“At Packt we
set out 8 years ago to bring practical, up to date and easy to use technical
books to the specialist tools and technologies that had been largely overlooked
by IT publishers. Today, I am really proud that with our authors and partners
we have been able to make useful books available on over 1000 topics and make
our contribution to the development community.”
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