- Apress
Apress, Inc. is a
publisher ofinformation technology books, based in Berkeley, CA.Apress was founded by authors Gary Cornell and Dan Appleman.
In 2003, Apress purchased much of the intellectual property of the designer-oriented publisher friends of ED.
Apress books, for the most part, are characterized by a uniform appearance on the shelf, with a distinctive yellow and black design. This uniformity was pioneered by the design of O'Reilly books, the first contemporary computer publisher to establish a visual presence in shops with a consistent design: however, MacDonald-Elsevier had anticipated this in the 1970s with a uniform design for its series "Monographs in Computer Science".Fact|date=May 2008
The uniformity of appearance of Apress books is balanced by a diversity of authorial voices and reasonable tolerance for authors' point of views.Fact|date=May 2008
On balance Apress titles are more Microsoft-centric than those of O'Reilly, but some of its most popular titles cover (see below) non-Microsoft subjects. Fact|date=May 2008
Their books are distributed worldwide by
Springer-Verlag .Fact|date=June 2008Notable books
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Dive into Python
*Practical Common Lisp
*Joel on Software External links
* [http://www.apress.com Official website]
* [http://www.friendsofed.com friends of ED]
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