Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sara Winge <sara@oreilly.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: O'Reilly announces Safari: O'Reilly Books Online

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 17, 2000
CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
http://www.oreilly.com


O'REILLY ANNOUNCES SAFARI: O'REILLY BOOKS ONLINE(TM)
New service will "Webbify" O'Reilly Technical Books

MONTEREY, CA--When is an online book not an ebook? When it's Safari:
O'Reilly Books Online, the web-native service announced today by
O'Reilly & Associates at their Open Source Convention in Monterey, CA.
Not just a collection of digitized books, Safari is a "knowledge
interface" that provides search and navigation across O'Reilly titles,
plus features like annotation and bookmarks that allow you to customize
the interface. Safari will be available in Fall 2000 at
safari.oreilly.com.  O'Reilly is previewing the service at the Open
Source Convention.

"We've always followed our own path, rather than conform to the
conventional practices of the publishing industry," said founder and
CEO Tim O'Reilly. "Safari is a logical extension of that approach. In
designing the service, we've exploded the notion of 'book' and built a
front end for the content of our books that truly harnesses the power
of the Web."

Safari transforms a collection of O'Reilly books into a meta-book
that's more than the sum  of its parts. A subscription-based service,
it allows you to build a customized online library. You pay a flat
monthly fee, based on the number of titles to which you subscribe. And
you can change the titles in your subscription as your needs change. So
if you've outgrown "Learning Perl", you can trade it in for "Advanced
Perl Programming." Safari will include 50 of O'Reilly's best-selling
books at launch, and the company will add titles until the entire
O'Reilly publishing list is available.

For more information on the Open Source Convention, see
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000.