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Introducing Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online LLC was formed when O’Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group, two companies in the education and technology industry, joined forces in 2001. The joint venture was about creating a digital library that would contain and make available to users on a subscription basis the best technology books from leading authors and publishers. These materials coming from O’Reilly, Sams, Wiley, Addison Wesley, and Prentice Hall, among others will be streamed directly to the subscribers’ computers or mobile devices as e-books or other readable digital formats.
A Most Comprehensive Content
Safari Books Online has materials from the leading technology book publishers such as O’Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, John Wiley & Sons, Adobe Press, Sams, Apress, Wrox, Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, Manning Publications, Packt, QUE, Oracle Press, and Syngress, among others. The categories of books include desktop and web applications, digital media, engineering, IT and software development, business, and professional development. Users can also select books by product such as AutoCAD or by vendor such as Autodesk. Aside from completed works, this comprehensive digital library also offers Rough Cuts, which are developed manuscripts but not yet published. It gives users an opportunity to interact with the author and provide feedback before the work is published.
Aside from books, Safari digital library has thousands of video courses from InfiniteSkills, Cisco, O’Reilly, Packt, Peachpit, Train Simple and many others. Some of the videos available sorted according to date of publication are the Big Think Leadership Channel from Pearson, Java Fundamentals Live Lessons from Prentice Hall, Filmmaking with Adobe Digital Video Tools and Workflows from Peachpit, and Introduction to Python from O’Reilly. It also has hundreds of conference videos that date back to 2007. The more recent video conferences include the Fluent Conference 2014, the Suits and Spooks Washington DC Conference 2014, and the Strata Conference Santa Clara 2014.
Safari Products
Safari Books Online offers two products, Bookshelf and Flow. With Bookshelf, users are allowed to choose up to ten books, courses and conference videos each month. The site allows for a 10-day free trial period, and should users wish to continue their subscription, they will be billed $19.99 per month. After six months, the cost will increase to $27.99 per month. The other product is Safari Flow which is priced at $29 per month. It provides unlimited web and mobile access to the thousands of digital content about technology, business, design, management, analytics and more. No credit card is required during the trial period, and users who have subscribed can cancel anytime.
Tools for Teams
The Safari digital library has special offers for teams. For instance, team accounts for Flow is now available but details are available only upon requests. Another way for customized team learning is the Safari Tutorials. It is a customized training for companies that are in need of skill- and knowledge-building courses for its staff and managers. With specific learning goals, subject matter experts and a comprehensive library of books and videos, people are given short, targeted lessons that are customized for them and which they can access from any device at their own schedule.
Data-Driven Discovery
Upon successful registration and signing in, users can search and access from thousands of technology, digital media, and personal and professional development books. They can quickly find specific information and jump easily across books to find related information. They can watch video training material from start to finish or search and jump to specific topics. Users can access books that are still being written or not yet published and interact with the author. The website provide time-saving tools for searches, favorites, notes, highlighting, bookmarks, tags and reviews. Users can switch devices, from desktop to mobile using Safari To Go, which is available on the iPad, iPhone, and Android phones and tablets.
Safari for Enterprise, Government and Academic
Aside from individuals and teams, Safari Books Online also has special offerings for enterprises, government offices, and academic institutions. Some of the companies that use their enterprise offerings are Tesla, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Yahoo. It can customize its services for government agencies regarding the content, training requirements and the budget. It is also possible to have Safari reside on private networks for security and confidentiality. Finally, together with electronic publisher ProQuest, Safari provides learning solutions to the academic and public library market, with benefits to qualifying academic accounts.
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