Publish with us
Do you want your ideas to have a truly global impact? Do you feel the need to reach a wider audience through a free and open approach to publishing?
About you
You are considering publishing your work through a major international publisher like O'Reilly, MIT Press, or Morgan Kaufmann. You already have the credentials - or the ambition and energy - to become part of the world's technology elite. Now you feel it is time to reach a readership of millions, a readership unmatched by any publisher.
About us
We are the first organization in the world to produce top-grade books and give all of them away for free. Our readers enjoy completely free materials, while our authors gain monetary and other rewards through our professionals association.
Our mission is to make free and open educational materials written by the world's technology elite - from both industry and academia.
Not only do we offer authors full support for rapid publication and quality assurance including peer review, we also offer a readership which on average is 20,000% more than an author's all-time most popular publication (example statistics). That is quite an achievement since we only publish best-selling authors.
With our unique approach to publishing, our readers are our helpers, not our customers. In fact, they are the main drivers of a grassroots dissemination of our books through social media, influential blogs, search engines, and classrooms.
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Types of Publications
You can choose a publication type to match your ideas, intention, and time schedule. Because of our free and open approach to publishing, your book will be readable on most devices with an internet connection - as well as on good old-fashioned paper.
Monographs
A monograph provides a unique opportunity for an individual author to put forward original ideas. You can have a free rein in specific subject analysis, drawing on original material, and set a new agenda within your discipline. Monographs have the potential to become classics within their field.
Short, practical books
If you want to help (UX) professionals solve concrete problems — e.g. how to design complex systems more effectively and master methods that can inform design decisions — we can help you with the publication of a practical guide. Usually this type of book is relatively short, consisting of 50-150 pages and includes lots of illustrations.
A new encyclopedia
If you want to make a foundational impact on your whole discipline - and you have the time and qualifications - you can become the editor of a whole new encyclopedia. Encyclopedias are our largest projects. They consist of articles covering key terms, definitions, and research within each discipline. An encyclopedia has the potential to create an in-depth development of your discipline. We can publish your encyclopedia chapter-by-chapter in the online versions over a period of time. This increases the publicity for the work and reduces the pressure on the editor!
Multi-author edited books
Bring together the brightest minds in your discipline and ask each of them to contribute a chapter to a book of which you will be the editor. Usually each author provides a highly-descriptive chapter detailing progressive research. We can publish the book chapter-by-chapter for added publicity and to reduce the pressure on you, the editor. Editing a book offers you an opportunity to cooperate and build long-term relations with a group of elite authors.
A book series
Become a series editor for a book series. You can arrange the series by discipline, focus, approach etc. Editing a book series offers you a golden opportunity to discuss your field with other elite authors, to cooperate and build long-term relations with them. This is networking at its best.
