About Us

Packt is a modern publishing company, producing cutting-edge books and eBooks for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. Packt, pronounced Packed, published its first book Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management in April 2004 and has continued to produce highly specialized books on understanding and applying IT technologies.

Our books, eBooks and articles share the experiences of your fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Our solutions-based books and eBooks give you the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies you're using to get the job done. Packt books are more specific and less general than the IT books you have seen in the past. Our unique business model allows us to bring you more focused information, giving you more of what you need to know, and less of what you don't.

PacktLib: http://PacktLib.PacktPub.com
PacktLib is Packt's online digital book library. Launched in August 2010, PacktLib allows you to access and search across Packt's entire library of books, finding practical solutions to your searches at the click of a button. That gives you almost 100,000 pages of book content in one fully searchable companion.

Packt Enterprise and Packt Open Source
In April 2010, Packt launched two new brands, Packt Enterprise and Packt Open Source, with the release of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook and Moodle 1.9 Theme Design. Packt Enterprise focuses on technologies produced by businesses for use in other corporations, while Packt Open Source focuses on technologies built around open source licences. These two brands do not encompass all of Packt's books, and it will continue to publish into areas which are not necessarily classifiable as open source or enterprise.

For more information on either brand, visit the brand page for Packt Enterprise or Packt Open Source.

Packt Open Source Project Royalty Scheme
Packt believes in Open Source and helping to sustain and support its unique projects and communities. Therefore, when we sell a book written on an Open Source project, we pay a royalty directly to that project. As a result of purchasing one of our Open Source books, Packt will have given some of the money received to the Open Source project.

In the long term, we see ourselves and yourselves, as customers and readers of our books, as part of the Open Source ecosystem, providing sustainable revenue for the projects we publish on. Our aim at Packt is to establish publishing royalties as an essential part of the service and support business model that sustains Open Source.

Packt Facts

• After receiving customer feedback, Packt removed password protection from its eBooks in 2008 and enabled both copy & paste and printing features
• Packt's URL, www.PacktPub.com, is an amalgamation of the words "Packt and Publishing."
• Packt has published over 400 books
• Packt has given over $150,000 to Open Source projects
• The Open Source Awards, formally the Open Source CMS Awards, has been running since 2006 and is regarded as one of the most established platforms for recognising excellence amongst Open Source Content Management System. Prize money given out since 2006 almost tops $75,000