Packt is a publishing company founded in 2003 headquartered in

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,with offices in

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. Packt primarily publishes print and electronic books and videos relating to information technology, including programming,

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and hardware. Alongside traditional publishing activities, Packt supports and promotes

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projects and concepts. In March 2011, following its 'Believe in Open Source campaign' Packt announced that its donations to open source projects have exceeded $300,000.

Company

Founded in 2003 by David and Rachel Maclean, Packt Publishing provides books, eBooks, video tutorials, and articles for software engineers, web developers, system administrators and users. The company states that it supports and publishes books on smaller projects and subjects that standard publishing companies cannot make profitable. The company's business model, which involves print on demand publishing and selling direct, enables it to make money selling books with lower unit sales. The aim of this business model is to give authors high royalty rates and the opportunity to write on topics that standard publishers tend to avoid. In 2018 Packt's revenue reached 18.4 million pounds, a 28% increase over the previous year, attributed to increased market share over the period. In 2019 Packt stated it had published 6,500 books over its 16 years of operation.

Books

Packt offers printed version of their books shipped to Europe, North America and selected Asian countries. In addition, they offer PDF versions of all of their books for download and in August 2010 began offering them in ePub and Mobi format. These eBooks were made free from

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in March 2009. Packt books are also available via the

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platform, while some (but not all) are accessible on the

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system.

Packt Enterprise and Packt Open Source

In April 2010, Packt launched two new brands, Packt Enterprise and Packt Open Source,Packt Enterprise and Packt Open Source Have Launched
with the release of

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4 Data and Services Cookbook and Moodle 1.9 Theme Design. Packt Enterprise focuses on technologies produced by businesses for use in other corporations, while Packt Open Source focuses on technologies built around open source licences. These two brands do not encompass all of Packt's books, and it will continue to publish into areas which are not necessarily classifiable as

or enterprise

Open source project royalties

Packt supports and promotes

projects and concepts. When a book written on an open source project is sold, Packt pays a royalty directly to that project. This scheme has resulted in the company providing sustainable revenues to many of the open source projects since 2004. In March 2011, following its 'Believe in Open Source campaign' Packt announced that its donations to Open Source projects have surpassed the $300,000 mark.

Open Source Awards

The Open Source Awards, launched as the spen source CMS Award in 2006, was created with the aim of encouraging, supporting, recognising and rewarding open source projects. The Open Source Award was re-launched in July 2010 to allow a wider range of open source projects to enter the contest. In November 2006,

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was announced as the first winner of the Award receiving $5,000.

Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide ...

finished second receiving $3,000 with

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finishing third and receiving $2,000. Since 2006, Packt has run the Award annually, each time expanding the categories and prize money to benefit the open source community. Previous winners in the Awards vary from

WordPress WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

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. In 2010, WordPress received the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award. The winners in the 2011 Open Source Awards are as follows:"Open Source Awards winners", http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home * Open Source CMS:

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* Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries:

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* Most Promising Open Source Project:

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* Open Source Business Applications:

PrestaShop PrestaShop is a freemium, open source e-commerce platform. The software is published under the Open Software License (OSL). It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system. It has a software d ...

* Open Source JavaScript Libraries:

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* Open Source Multimedia Software:

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Article Network

In April 2007, Packt launched its Article Network and now publishes around 20 articles each month. The Article Network is a free collection of articles and book excerpts written by professionals and developers from around the world. These articles cover technologies related to both the Packt Open Source brand, such as

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, and the Packt Enterprise brand, such as SOA.

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