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- Safari Books Online Paige Mazzoni or Rose St. Clair, 707-827-4139 pmazzoni@safarijv.com or Schwartz Communications Michael Kellner or Heather Craft, 415-512-0770 safari@schwartz-pr.com Safari Books Online, the leading provider of an on-demand digital library for technology and business professionals, today announced significant enhancements to its services. The latest version of Safari includes the availability of full book downloads within Safari's library
and gives companies the ability to instantaneously sign up small workgroups on Safari Books Online. Both upgrades enable Safari to more fully meet the needs of enterprise and individual subscribers.
Safari Books Online's self-service feature for small workgroups is an easy-to-navigate function that allows small workgroups to sign themselves up as a workgroup, enabling small companies and teams to get up and running on Safari faster. It also makes it possible for small workgroups to initiate and administer their own accounts and manage their members, giving their members immediate access to the valuable information within the Safari library. Of course, Safari's sales force remains available for support.
Safari has also made full book downloads available to all subscribers who have Safari Library accounts. Subscribers can now search across thousands of technical and business books to pinpoint needed information in a matter of seconds and then download and read entire books in PDF format. Prior to this release, users could only download chapters.
"Through Safari's self-service feature for small workgroups, our customers gain much easier access to our vast store of information," said Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online. "And the addition of full book downloads helps users experience the portability of a traditional book while still accessing content-on-demand through Safari's digital library."
About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), founded in 2001 as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media Inc. and Pearson Education, is the leading on-demand reference and learning platform delivering expert content from the world's thought-leaders in business and technology innovation. Safari offers the combined collections of O'Reilly Media, Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, lynda.com, 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, manuscripts, short topics, articles and instructional videos are available from expert authors, innovators and thought leaders. Safari is an essential, always-on business tool that is fast changing the way corporate, academic and training organizations access information. Safari also enables increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari offers a range of B2B product mixes and pricing programs for every size organization and a B2C product option for individual users.
Self-Service Feature for Small Workgroups and Full Book Downloads
Provide Users Instant Access, Address the Growing Needs of Today's
Mobile Workforce
