Wrox Chapters on Demand is our new system to let programmers buy individual chapters from Wrox books. Launched yesterday with 47 Wrox books and approximately 900 individual chapters, programmers can now buy PDFs of just the chapters they need. Over the next week or two, we have another 37 books and 800 chapters staged and ready to roll out. Going forward, we'll make almost every Wrox book available by the chapter in Chapters on Demand as soon as the book is published, or even before print book availability in stores.
Right now, Wrox Chapters on Demand are available for purchase only from Wrox.com. We sell most chapters for $4.99 (US) although a handful of mega-chapters sell for $6.99 and $9.99. Every book also has 1 chapter available for free, typically chapter 1. With Wrox Beginning books in the program we also make the Answers Appendix available for free. And there are a handful of chapters and appendixes that are so short we're giving them away free too. Free chapters are sent by email, purchased chapters come from a secure download.
Wrox Chapters on Demand are sold as PDFs, with no DRM other than trust, subject to our terms of use. Like the Wrox Blox we launched last fall, chapters you buy are watermarked with your name and email address at the bottom of each page.
For any book available in Chapters on Demand, like Professional Visual Studio Extensibility by Keyvan Nayyeri the book's page at wrox.com features a new navigation tab for Chapters on Demand like you see here. There's a detailed description for each chapter so you know what you get before you buy it. This page shows just the first 2 lines of each chapter description, but the "more" link expands the description to show you the complete introduction from each chapter.
To see which books are available as Chapters on Demand at Wrox, look in any book list on the site like All Titles or ASP.NET. Books available as Chapters on Demand will have an additional Chapters on Demand link after their listing in the table.
Authors, we hope you like this great new way to get your expertise to programmers. If you have questions, please join in the private discussion in the Wrox author forum at p2p.wrox.com, ask me, or ask your editor.
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