We get a fair number of site license requests for our books, where someone wants to host digital copies on their Intranet so a group of developers can access them. The customer experience to do that was very Web 0.5, and required the customer to search our website for what they hoped was the appropriate email address to send a query. I think we’ve fixed that. For books that are already available in PDF format, there is now a link that says “Buy PDF Site License” on the catalog page. Clicking it opens a simple form with the book title and ISBN already blown in. Just include your name, email address, and phone number, and our Customer Service group will be in touch.

We’re rolling this out on more and more books as we convert files to PDF. We’re processing an additional 115 now, and they should be available within the next week.