Packt


Packt, is a publishing company founded in 2003 headquartered in Birmingham, UK, with offices in Mumbai, India. Packt primarily publishes print and electronic books and videos relating to information technology, including programming, web design, data analysis and hardware.
Alongside traditional publishing activities, Packt supports and promotes open source 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 Packt Publishing provides books, eBooks, video tutorials, and articles for software engineers, web developers, system administrators and users. The company claims 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 Packts revenue reached 18.4 million pounds, a 28% increase over the previous year, attributed to increased market share over the period.
In 2019 Packt claimed 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 digital rights management in March 2009. Packt books are also available via the Perlego platform, while some are accessible on the Safari Books Online system.

PacktLib

PacktLib is Packt's online digital book library. Launched in August 2010, PacktLib allows users to access and search across Packt's entire library of books.

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 Ubuntu, and the Packt Enterprise brand, such as SOA.