Wrox Blox launches with Silverlight, Adobe AIR, IPhone and LINQ

Wrox launched our new Wrox Blox product today with content on 4 great new technologies: Silverlight, Adobe AIR, IPhone and LINQ with ASP.NET 3.5. What are Wrox Blox?

Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages. Electronic only and downloadable: they're PDFs available from Wrox.com.

And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free. If you're paying $3.99 (US - which is the introductory price for these) that's low enough that we don't want to hassle readers with DRM.

So we're not only excited about the opportunity for readers to get these hot "just enough content" Wrox Blox on topics they need immediately when we need them, but we think the opportunity is great for authors too to share their knowledge in some format other than just books. (Authors, ping your AEs about opportunities on these if you haven't yet.)

Hot, immediately needed topics, here they are:

• Silverlight 1.0 Animation
• Leverage LINQ in ASP.NET 3.5 Projects
• iPhone and iPod Touch Programming
• Building a Photo Gallery with Adobe AIR

Big thanks to all the authors who not only provided great content but also put up with an ever changing process and specification for writing these. Mike Meyers, Roger Jennings, Richard Wagner, Todd Anderson - THANKS! And to the Wrox team who built the Wrox Blox site and tools: Ted, Seta, Dawn, Kristen, Debra, Ami, Tim, Colleen, and especially Lynne who really had to put up with a lot of grief from me, thanks for making this happen! And of course thanks to the Wrox acquisitions staff Bob, Katie, and Chris who made this first wave (and a few more for next week) happen.

Look for new Wrox Blox from Wrox on almost every week.