InformIT, a subsidiary of Pearson Education

Pearson Education

Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...

, is an online book vendor and an electronic publisher of technology and education content.

InformIT.com is one of three flagship web sites of the Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

-focused Pearson Technology Group publishing imprints, and one of several sites in the InformIT Network. This site features free articles, blogs, and podcasts on IT topics and products, as well as a bookstore carrying all titles from these imprints.

Publishing imprints represented on InformIT.com include Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley was a book publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its textbooks and computer literature. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributed its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service...

 Professional, Cisco Press

Cisco Press

Cisco Press is a publishing alliance between Cisco Systems and the Pearson Education division of Pearson PLC. Cisco Press distributes its titles through traditional resellers as well as through the Safari Books Online e-reference service.Cisco Press is the Cisco Systems authorized book publisher...

, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall is a major educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher-education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari...

 Professional Technical Reference, Que Publishing, and Sams Publishing

SAMS Publishing

Sams Publishing is a subsidiary of Pearson Education dedicated to the publishing of technical training manuals.SAMS Publishing was founded in 1946 by Howard W. Sams, originally producing radio schematics and repair manuals. It was acquired by ITT in 1967. ITT sold its publishing division in 1985 to...

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The other flagship sites in the InformIT Network include:

Peachpit.com: Peachpit

Peachpit

Peachpit is an educational publisher and has been publishing books, PDFs, and videos on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986...

 has been publishing books on graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986. Peachpit's products feature step-by-step explanations, timesaving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. Peachpit is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide and Classroom in a Book series, and the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series. Peachpit is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others.

FTPress.com: The book publishing imprint related to the Financial Times

Financial Times

The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....

 newspaper, FT Press

FT Press

FT Press , the book publishing imprint related to the Financial Times newspaper, creates books in the areas of General Business, Finance and Investing, Sales and Marketing, Leadership, Management and Strategy, Human Resources, and Global Business. FT Press is the publishing partner for Wharton...

 creates books in the areas of General Business, Finance and Investing, Sales and Marketing, Leadership, Management and Strategy, Human Resources, and Global Business. FT Press is the publishing partner for Wharton School Publishing

Wharton School Publishing

Wharton School Publishing is a publishing house, a division of The Wharton School and Pearson Education. The imprint brings together a variety of business educators and corporate executives on a list that features works in many formats, including print, audio, electronic documents, CD-ROM and video...

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Safari Books Online Joint Venture

In 2001, the Pearson Technology Group and O'Reilly Media LLC formed a joint partnership called Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA...

, to offer a web-based electronic library of technical and business books from InformIT's imprint partners and O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...

. The InformIT Network offers access to this service via its web sites.

External links

• InformIT.com
• InformIT Safari Books Online
• Peachpit.com
• FTPress.com
• CiscoPress.com
• IBMPressBooks.com
• ExamCram.com
• WhartonSchoolPublishing.com
• Informit Australia (site on Australasian scholarly research, unrelated to InformIT, above)