High-Tech Publisher Thrives While Most Are Tanking

Many computer book publishers are going bankrupt right now. Yet Web-based Visibooks has doubled its sales. Is it the Publisher of the Future?

Since last year, sales at most computer book publishers have dropped 20-60%. Hungry Minds sold itself before it went bankrupt. Coriolis just did the same. SAMS is reorganizing. Sybex, Wrox, and McGraw-Hill/Osborne are laying off staff. Yet Visibooks has doubled its sales in the past three months. Is Visibooks the Publisher of the Future?

Licensing Books Like Software
Most publishers don't sell books in digital format. But Visibooks sells all its books as downloadable PDFs at www.visibooks.com. It's the first publisher to license books like software, with organizations paying a yearly fee to print all the copies they need.

Fewer Words Equals Better Books?
Most computer publishers crank out 500-page tomes on simple subjects. But who's got time to plow through them? Visibooks contain 1/10 the words of other computer books, and readers worldwide have praised this "less is more" approach.

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Chris Charuhas
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