About The Company

Packt, pronounced Packed, published its first book Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management in April 2004 and has continued to specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions.

Packt is recognized for the unique titles that it brings to market. We represent a genre of high end technical books for niche audiences of IT professionals. Our books are quite literally a product of distilled community experience, as all the people involved with the content are a part of the IT community: the authors, the editors, and our reviewers. At Packt, we specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions. We are interested in authors who can help us do so.

Our books and publications share the experiences of you and your fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Our solutions-based books 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.

Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike.

Packt's URL, www.PacktPub.com is an amalgamation of the words "Packt and Publishing."
 

Community. Experience. Distilled.

At Packt, we believe that these three words concisely sum us up, and what our books achieve.

Community captures the online and direct nature of what we do. We support and publish books on software that have developed loyal and active online technical communities.

Experience encapsulates the practical, how to knowledge that our books provide.

Distilled differentiates the quality of our professionally edited and packaged books from the free content found on the web.