Over 200 Apress Titles Now Available on Kindle

Berkeley, CA, September 18, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Technology publisher Apress today announced that over 200 Apress books are now available direct from the Kindle Store as Kindle Editions and that it is committed to making its entire catalog available on Kindle by the end of 2008.

Apress has long supported the needs of its professional IT developer audience, by making its entire list of published books available as eBooks since 2005 via the Apress eBookshop: http://eBookshop.apress.com. The decision to make all Apress books available as Kindle Editions stems from the continued commitment of the technology publisher to providing information to its readers in the way they need and want. Apress books will be available in the Kindle Store immediately on publication by parallel release with its own PDF eBooks.

According to the President of Apress, Paul Manning, “Kindle combines the readability of paper and the ease of the internet. It appears to be an ideal match for the technically savvy professional who is the core of the Apress customer base. We have very high hopes for customer demand for our technical products in this versatile format.”

“Kindle is reigniting a love of reading—after purchasing a Kindle, customers purchase, on average, just as many physical books, and their total book purchases on Amazon increase by more than double,” said Jay Marine, Director of Product Management for Amazon Kindle. “This commitment from Apress moves us closer to our vision for Kindle, which is to make any book, ever printed, in any language available wirelessly in less than 60 seconds.”

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