Peachpit
Book publisher
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | [[Image:Peachpit logo.jpg]] |
| parent | Pearson Education |
| founded | 1986 |
| founder | Ted Nace and Michael Gardner |
| country | United States |
| headquarters | 50 California Street |
| San Francisco | |
| publications | Books, Ebooks, and video |
| topics | Technology |
| imprints | Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Apple Certified, New Riders |
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Peachpit is a publisher of books focused on graphic design, web design, and development. Peachpit's parent company is Pearson Education, which owns additional educational media brands including Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, and New Riders.
Founded in 1986, Peachpit publishes the Visual QuickStart Guide, Visual QuickPro Guide, and Classroom in a Book series, in addition to the design imprint New Riders and its Voices That Matter series. Peachpit is the official publishing partner for Adobe Systems, Lynda.com, Apple Certified at Apple Inc, and other tech corporations.
History
Peachpit Press was founded in 1986 by Ted Nace{{cite news |author=Monadnock Summer |title=Ted Nace: Confessions Of A Recovering Capitalist |publisher=New Hampshire Public Radio (nhpr) |date=August 8, 2004 |url=http://www.nhpr.org/node/6718 |access-date=2010-11-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210165515/http://www.nhpr.org/node/6718 |archive-date=February 10, 2010 |author= Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas |title= Photoshop CS for Windows and Macintosh |publisher= Peachpit Press |year= 2004 |isbn= 9780321213532 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pCCmjQ0vVMIC&q=%22ted+nace%22+peachpit&pg=PR3 |access-date= 2010-11-19 |title= Ted Nace |magazine= Orion Magazine |date= 2010-11-19 |url= http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/contributor/507/ |access-date= 2010-11-19 |archive-date= 2011-01-02 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110102153831/http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/contributor/507/ |url-status= dead ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Peachpit_offices.jpg" caption="The Peachpit offices in San Francisco"] ::
Although known as a Mac publisher Peachpit started out publishing Windows related books. Its first Macintosh books were The Little Mac Book and The Mac is not a typewriter, both by Robin Williams. In 1992, Peachpit purchased the Macintosh Bible series from Arthur Naiman's Goldstein and Blair (named after characters in the George Orwell novel 1984). In 1998, when Apple user share was down to 4% of the computer user market and Power Computing was making Mac clones, Peachpit was still publishing a large portion of Mac books. Peachpit published Visual QuickStart Guides for Mac.
Notable authors
Some notable Peachpit authors include: David Blatner, Thom Hartmann, Deke McClelland, Ted Nace, Scott Kelby, Robin Williams, Don Rittner, Joe McNally, Larry Magid, Steve Krug, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jakob Nielsen, Bruce Schneier, Fred Davis, Seth Godin, Gary Wolf, Lynda Weinman, Ben Forta and Maria Langer.
Publications
- Zap!: How Your Computer Can Hurt You - and What You Can Do About It by Don Sellers.
- Kid's Web Kit by Lisa Lopuck
- Ecolinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information by Don Rittner
- Computer Privacy Handbook by Andre Bacard
- Gay and Lesbian Online by Jeff Dawson
- Avatars! Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet by Bruce Damer
- Inside PostScript by Frank Merritt Braswell, published originally in 1989 by Systems of Merritt later together by Systems of Merritt and Peachpit Press.
Imprints
Peachpit Press also publishes or partners with Adobe Press, Apple Certified, lynda.com, and New Riders.
References
References
- "Pearson stays on top as world's largest book publisher".
- "Resources for Creative Professionals".".
- "About | Peachpit".
- (January 17, 2008). "jtChatter: Another bedtime story for designers".
- "Mac Gathering Computer Convention: Exhibitors".
- Gates, Jennifer. (1994). "ZAP!: How Your Computer Can Hurt You - and What You Can Do About It".
- Lewis, Peter H.. (May 12, 1992). "PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Learning to Save Trees". The New York Times.
- "Bacard's Blog – my blog".
- (September 9, 1996). "How To Practice Safe Surfing".
- "DigitalSpace: Avatars Book Home Page and Teleport".
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