primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . august 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message packt founded 2004 country of origin united kingdom headquarters location birmingham publication types books nonfiction topics technology official website www.packtpub.com packt pronounced packed is a print on demand publishing company based in birmingham uk 1 and mumbai india . 2 many of its book offerings concern information technology or software . it offers print books as well as e books in several formats . alongside traditional publishing activities packt supports and promotes open source projects and concepts . in march 2011 following its believe in open source campaign packt announced that its donations to open source projects have surpassed the 300 000 mark . contents 1 company 2 books 3 packtlib 4 packt enterprise and packt open source 5 open source project royalties believe in open source 6 open source awards 7 article network 8 references 9 external links company edit packt publishing provides books ebooks video tutorials and articles for it developers administrators and users . packt published its first book mastering phpmyadmin for effective mysql management in april 2004 and continues to specialise in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions . the company claims that it supports and publishes books on smaller projects and subjects that standard publishing companies can not make profitable . the company s business model which involves print on demand publishing and selling direct enables it to make money selling books with lower unit sales . the aim of this business model is to give authors high royalty rates and the opportunity to write on topics that standard publishers tend to avoid . books edit packt offers pdf versions of all of their books for download and in august 2010 began offering them in epub and mobi format . these ebooks were made free from digital rights management in march 2009 . 3 some but not all packt books are also available via the safari books online system . 4 packtlib edit packtlib 5 is packt s online digital book library . launched in august 2010 packtlib allows users to access and search across packt s entire library of books finding practical solutions to searches at the click of a button . packt enterprise and packt open source edit in april 2010 packt launched two new brands packt enterprise and packt open source 6 with the release of microsoft silverlight 4 data and services cookbook and moodle 1.9 theme design . 6 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 7 open source project royalties believe in open source edit packt supports and promotes open source projects and concepts . when a book written on an open source project is sold packt pays a royalty directly to that project . this scheme has resulted in the company providing sustainable revenues to many of the open source projects since 2004 . 8 in march 2011 following its believe in open source campaign packt announced that its donations to open source projects have surpassed the 300 000 mark . 9 open source awards edit the open source awards launched as the open source cms award in 2006 was created with the aim of encouraging supporting recognising and rewarding open source projects . the open source award was re launched in july 2010 to allow a wider range of open source projects to enter the contest . in november 2006 joomla was announced as the first winner of the award receiving 5 000 . drupal finished second receiving 3 000 with plone finishing third and receiving 2 000 . since 2006 packt has run the award annually each time expanding the categories and prize money to benefit the open source community . previous winners in the awards vary from wordpress to modx 10 the winners in the 2011 open source awards are as follows 11 open source cms joomla open source mobile toolkits and libraries jquery mobile most promising open source project impresspages open source business applications prestashop open source javascript libraries jquery open source multimedia software blender article network edit in april 2007 packt launched its article network and now publishes around 20 articles each month citation needed . the article network is a free collection of articles and book excerpts written by professionals and developers from around the world . these articles cover technologies related to both the packt open source brand such as ubuntu and the packt enterprise brand such as soa . references edit https www.packtpub.com books info packt careers with packt birmingham https www.packtpub.com books info packt careers with packt mumbai packt publishing removes drm from their ebooks safari to make packt titles available online . information today . june 2008 . packtlib http packtlib.packtpub.com a b packt enterprise and packt open source have launched what about other packt books packt publishing open source cms award 2006 vote textpattern http txpmag.com article packt publishing open source cms award 2006 vote textpattern txp magazine august 2006 packt publishing believes in open source donates over 300k to projects http www.linuxtoday.com infrastructure 2011030900335osbzcy open source cms award previous winners http www.packtpub.com open source cms award previous winners open source awards winners http www.packtpub.com open source awards home external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title packt & oldid 723984173 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdomcomputer book publishing companiespackt publishing bookshidden categories use british english from february 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