Chris Webb

Recently we launched Wrox Blox, our bite-sized e-content products for programmers.  Today we continue with new e-content initiatives and have announced our partnership with Near-Time to produce a new line of wiki-based products.

The first of these new products is ASP3Wiki, and is best summarized by this post on Jim Mintel’s blog.

Wrox’s ASP3Wiki is the complete contents of one of the best-selling web programming books ever, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, free, online, in wiki format. Why? Well, we know from our traffic on p2p.wrox.com that ASP 3.0 is still a widely used web platform, even today 8 years after it debuted. Think about that: how many web programming tools are still in as widespread use as ASP 3 is 8 years after they launch? So, even though the sales of the paper book finally slowed to a tricked about 12 months ago, we know there’s still demand out there for this information and we’ve decided (along with the blessings of the lead authors thank you Dave Sussman, Jon Duckett, and Chris Ullman!) to make this freely available on this wiki.

This is just one of several e-content experiments we are working on in our Wrox brand.  If feedback is positive on ASP3Wiki, we plan to roll out additional wikis on current topics, perhaps consider bundles with printed books and wiki access and so forth.

If you feel this format works for you, let us know. We want to build product you want and want to hear from you.