INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pearson Education’s technology imprints, in partnership with Safari Books Online, now offer a “Search This Book” widget on www.informit.com, for every Pearson title already available on Safari’s digital library. The widget enables visitors to go beyond book descriptions and conduct full-text searches. Pearson is the first publisher to offer this sophisticated, extensive search tool with Safari Books Online technology.

Participating Pearson imprints are Addison-Wesley Professional; Prentice Hall Professional; Cisco Press, IBM Press, Que Publishing, Sams Publishing, Exam Cram and Peachpit.

Leading titles available include Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed; Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion; CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition; and Peachpit’s Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source. For a free trial to Safari Books Online, the premier on-demand technology content library, visit www.informit.com/safaritrial.

“We are making the content and information contained within books more findable and browsable,” said John Wait, head of digital initiatives for Pearson’s professional technical division. “With this new widget, powered by Safari Books Online, developers, software engineers, system administrators, database administrators and IT managers can now search inside a book and know if it will meet their needs.”

“Safari Books Online is pleased to partner with Pearson in the launch of the ‘Search This Book’ widget, making it more convenient for readers to quickly find the information they need,” said John Chodacki, director of product management at Safari Books Online. “It is also another demonstration of Safari Books Online’s commitment to increase the use of, and access to, the invaluable content available through our service.”

About Pearson Education

The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson Education is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm, InformIT (www.informit.com) -The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit (www.peachpit.com), the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson is also co-founder, with O’Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online (http://safari.informit.com), the premier on-demand digital library providing thousands of expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including expert technology, creative and design, business and management resources in video and text formats. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

Contacts:
Pearson Education
Lisa Jacobson Brown, Publicist, 317-428-3575
Lisa.jacobson-brown@pearson.com
or
Safari Books Online
Erica Salamida, 417-512-0770
safari@schwartz-pr.com