Safari Books Expands

Safari Books Online has acquired Massachusetts-based Threepress Consulting Inc,, makers of the Ibis Reader online E-pub reading system. The acquisition further enhances Safari Books Online’s capability to deliver customized subscription learning content online.

As part of the acquisition, Threepress co-founders Liza Daly and Keith Fahlgren and the rest of the Threepress staff will join the Safari Books Online engineering team, working from their East Coast and Bay Area locations. Daly will become vice president of Engineering while Fahlgren will assume the role of director of Engineering.

Threepress’ technology expertise will support Safari Books Online’s efforts to constantly improve browser-based and mobile delivery of a large digital library of book, video and learning content.

Subscribers to Safari Books Online have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully searchable database.

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