I'm happy to tell you that we have begun rolling out Wrox DRM-free ebooks on Wrox.com in both PDF and ePub. And, now, as of January 2012, these include mobi files as well. And for books where we offer all 3 versions versions, you'll automatically get the PDF and the ePUB AND mobi in your download. Initially, we have the following list of more than 50 recent and top-selling Wrox ebooks we're offering the combination format download on. When you pay for the PDF on these, you'll get the ePUB and mobi as well.

In addition to the 247 Wrox books that Safari now has in the Safari Online Books subscription, Safari has also now added the videos to go with 12 of our 24-Hour Trainer books. So, if you have a Safari library subscription, you should now be able to read these books as well as watch the hours of accompanying video lessons for each.

I'm very happy to acknowledge what several authors and readers have noticed: Wrox ebooks are now available for purchase from oreilly.com. O'Reilly has built a tremendous retail web site over the years selling many other publisher's books that programmers would look for including Manning, Pragmatic, as well as their own books. We're happy that our readers can now buy our ebooks there as well.

This is an exciting day and exciting news to share. Wiley and Safari have announced that Wrox books are now available in Safari Books Online. We know many of you use Safari already and many more of you may join now that Wrox books are available there too. We know this, because as our marketing director David says in the press release:

If you’ve been following my blog since February, you know that we started then with 24 Wrox ebooks that we began selling as DRM-free PDFs (PDFs with no digital rights management). We’ve listened to a lot of feedback about our DRM-free PDF ebooks this year and are happy to announce two really big permanent steps for Wrox ebooks.

I'm happy to announce our latest user group and PASS members promotion -- 40% off of the following SQL Server books and available DRM-free ebooks.

As usual, when there's a big list of conference announcements, there's a big list of Wrox authors speaking at them. We're lucky to get to work with such busy and active authors, here are a few of the highlights on the speaking schedule in 2010:

I thought it only fitting to have my first post be about an event that Brian Knight, the crew at Pragmatic Works and I have been working on for several weeks.