Bleeding Edge Press Benefits from Mini Book Sprints

Taken from http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/04/25/bleeding-edge-press-benefits-from-mini-book-sprints/

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Safari Books Online

Bleeding Edge Press, a publisher of short ebooks and videos, focuses on early or hot topics that ride the pulse of the developer community. Moving quickly through development, and tapping into decades of publishing experience, these short ebooks focus on developer-level topics and are being published in Safari Books Online, allowing subscribers to get their “hands” on these hot topics. The ebooks will also be published on Amazon, Google Play and the iBookstore.

Troy Mott, Co-founder and Publisher of Bleeding Edge Press, has benefited from working closely with Adam Hyde (http://toc.oreilly.com/ahyde), founder of the Book Sprint methodology (http://localhost:8888/booksprints.net-old-site). “Zero to book in 5 days. Seem impossible? Its not, its very possible, fun, and extremely rewarding,” says Adam Hyde. “Book Sprints produce great books and they are a great learning environment and team-building process.”

With some close mentoring from Adam Hyde, Troy has implemented mini remote Book Sprints, creating short ebooks on a topic in a couple of days time. “We are breaking all of the rules and re-inventing what it means to be a publisher,” says Troy Mott. “It may take a traditional publisher many months to write and produce a book that takes us two weeks to create. Developers need information fast, and with this model, we are poised to deliver that to them.”

Bleeding Edge Press has published their first two books in Safari Books Online: Developing a Backbone.js Edge, which was created during a mini remote book sprint, and Developing an AngularJS Edge. For more information about these books and others as well, please visit http://bleedingedgepress.com.