Press Release
June 14, 1999
O'Reilly and DigitalEd Sign Exclusive Web Courses Deal with barnesandnoble.com
SEBASTOPOL, CA--O'Reilly & Associates, Digital Education Systems
(DigitalEd), and barnesandnoble.com have signed an agreement for
barnesandnoble.com to resell
O'Reilly/DigitalEd web-based
courses. As
part of the agreement, barnesandnoble.com will be the exclusive online
bookstore to resell the courses. The O'Reilly/DigitalEd courses, based
on O'Reilly's bestselling technical books, provide a self-paced online
learning experience that takes full advantage of the Web's
interactivity. barnesandnoble.com will offer 12 courses in O'Reilly's
Web technology series plus "Introduction to the Palm Pilot." The
required books for all courses will also be available at
barnesandnoble.com (www.bn.com), a leading Internet commerce site for
booklovers.
"barnesandnoble.com provides a unique service to the forward-thinking
corporate customers who are adopting the O'Reilly/DigitalEd web-based
courses," said Jill Berlin, O'Reilly's Director of Sales. "We're
pleased to enter into this partnership with them to promote our
state-of-the-art courseware via barnesandnoble.com."
O'Reilly/DigitalEd courseware, launched in March, 1998, is being used
by corporations including Cisco Systems, US Internetworking, Verio, and
Sun Microsystems.
Wendy Moore, US Internetworking's director of training, said "DigitalEd
enjoys instant credibility given its partnerships with expert content
partners including O'Reilly & Associates. We never have to worry that
DigitalEd courseware is accurate or up-to-date. Just as impressively,
DigitalEd courseware is well designed, intuitively responding to how
our people best learn. It doesn't require a lot of bandwidth and
provides a rich, interactive learning environment that makes a very
strong case for the benefits of web-based training."
ABOUT DIGITALED
DigitalEd is the leading provider of web-based training services for
businesses using the Internet to deliver information technology
education programs to the desktop. The Denver-based company also is
developing courseware for human resource training; already available is
a program that supports sexual harassment prevention efforts.
DitigalEd's customers include IBM (NYSE: IBM), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:
CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP), US Internetworking (Nasdaq: USIX),
3Com (Nasdaq: COMS), Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO) and Sun Microsystems
(Nasdaq: SUNW). Its strategic partners include O'Reilly & Associates,
WestNet Learning Technologies and Jones International, Ltd., which this
year earned accreditation for Jones International University, the first
Internet-only school accredited to grant college degrees. Information
about DigitalEd can be found at
http://www.digitaled.com.
About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
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