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Safari Books Online has the most extensive collection of important technology, creative, business and management books from the world's most trusted Authors and Publishers, like O'Reilly Media, John Wiley & Sons, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Apress, Manning and many more.

All of the content is vetted, reliable, and includes the most current, relevant and best-selling titles available on the market today. In addition, key hard-to-find technology books from  past versions or editions can also be found in our library. In fact, 85% of the hottest technology books sold in the retail market are available on Safari Books Online. But our on-demand digital library is about much more than just books. We take full advantage of the online and mobile technologies to provide the content you need in the format you want from the Authors and Publishers you respect.

Training Videos, Rough Cuts, Short Cuts and Technical Articles are all an important part of your Safari Books Online subscription.

Safari Books Online helps you hit the ground running with its powerful, comprehensive collection of over 1,400 hours of online training videos that provide top-notch instruction on Web design, software development and graphic tools and techniques from leading experts in training videos like Talented Pixie and Splash Media. You can watch the videos in sequence or skip to the chapters that interest you most. You may also follow clearly defined learning objectives and track your progress along the way.

These training videos are organized into bite-sized, self-contained sessions so you’ll get valuable knowledge and skills in as little as 15 minutes. You’ll be shown exactly how to get great results in your real-world environment.

You asked for concise digital documents that provide concentrated information that shows you new ways to solve daily problems. We delivered Short Cuts, exclusive short-topic works produced by leading authors and experts on subjects that are either too early in their life cycle or too specific to have entire books dedicated to the topic.

Q1 2010, in an effort to address customers’ ever increasing needs for quick-to-digest relevant and focused information, we expanded our Short Cuts offering by including Elements and Shorts from FT Press Delivers. Both of these additions are focused on providing business lessons and skills training from leading business executives, writers and thinkers in short, specifically-focused essays.

Access to Short Cuts, including Elements and Shorts, is included at no additional cost for Safari Books Online subscribers.

Quick Facts:

• Short Cuts from Safari Books Online are exclusive short-topic works produced by leading authors on subjects that are either too early in their life cycle or too specific to have entire books dedicated to the topic. Short Cuts provide deep coverage of a specific topic, usually in fewer than 100 pages.
• Elements are the best elements of many books that are written on a particular topic, boiled down to approximately 4 – 8 pages in length.
• Shorts are new works written about a particular topic and typically are 16 – 20 pages in length.
• FT Press Delivers’ Elements and Shorts provide essential insights from the best business books and original writings by some of the leading business thinkers alive today such as Jim Champy, Brian Solis, Mark Zandi, Jon M. Huntsman, John Kao, Michael Abrashoff, and Seth Goldman.

View all Short Cuts available on Safari Books Online.

Rough Cuts provides you with early access to books – before they are published or publicly available – and access to the authors who write those books. Sometimes you just can't wait for the book to be printed. When you need early access to information about the latest technology, Rough Cuts are your solution. Rough Cuts are books-in-progress that provide early access to information on cutting-edge technologies.

Rough Cuts also gives you access to books as they are being written - a sneak peek into the authoring process. Users can help shape the content of the book by providing feedback and participating in dialogues with authors and other subscribers about book content while it’s being developed.

Rough Cuts are typically available in Safari Books Online two to six months prior to a book's publication and are continually updated. Future iterations of the manuscript (Rough Cut) and published work (book) are included in the price of the subscription to Safari Books Online.

Safari Books Online contains a collection of thousands of technical articles published by highly regarded and trusted sources. Articles in Safari Books Online offer targeted treatments of technology topics that complement our existing library of books. All articles are written by industry experts like O'Reilly Network, IBM developerWorks, Oracle Technology Network, Microsoft Security at Home, Apple Developer Connection, and Sun Developer Network.

We have correlated our vast collection of technical articles with all the other content in Safari Books Online, so when you're searching on a topic or reading a book, you are also just a few clicks away from the latest technical articles on the topic.

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