Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd.

Shroff Publishers and Distributors Private Limited has a tie up to reprint and Distribute a few US publishers like O'Reilly & Associates, Packt Publishing, Mike Murach & Associates, Rampant TechPress, Pragmatic Bookshelf, IBM Redbooks, MC Press, Discovery Press, etc. O'Reilly & Associates is owned by Tim O'Reilly, and the books published by O'Reilly are considered the most technically proficient written manuals in the world of international publishing. O'Reilly are also well known for another unique feature ........... having various kinds of animals on their covers. Like the titles, "ASP in a Nutshell" and "Developing ASP Components" have a picture of an asp snake on them. Similarly their best-seller title, "Java in a Nutshell" has a Tiger on the cover, their "Programming Perl" book is called "The Camel Book". Every title has a colophon at the end of the book describing the animal on the cover. O'Reilly titles have been dominating the Indian market for quite some years now. Some of the all-time bestsellers are "Java Servlet Programming", "Enterprise JavaBeans", "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide", "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide", "Web Design in a Nutshell". Current bestsellers are "Head First Series", "Missing Maunual Series", "Programming C # - Covers C # 3.0, 5th Edition" and "PC Hardware in a Nutshell"

Shroff Publishers were instrumental in promoting Wrox Press titles till their liquidation in March 2003. Wrox Press as an entity ceases to exist and the assets have been split and sold to two US-based publishers. One has picked up the name and logo with 10% titles and the other has acquired balance 90%. Till their liquidation Shroff Publishers established the Wrox brand so aggressively that it caught the fancy of computer programmers all over India within a very short span. Some of the bestsellers of the recent publishers being promoted by Shroff Publishers are "Documentum Content Management Foundations" and "EJB 3 Developer Guide" from Packt Publishing. "Murach's Java Servlets and JSP, 2nd Edition" and "Murach's Visual Basic 2008" from Mike Murach. "Job Interview Series" and "Oracle Series" from Rampant TechPress. "Java Server Programming for Professionals - Covers Java EE 5, 2nd Edition", "Oracle for Professionals - Covers Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g" and "Java EE 5 for Beginners, 2nd Edition" from X-Team. The Shroff Publishers reprints have now become immensely popular in India amongst the computer book enthusiasts. One important aspect of the Indian reprints are the prices, the prices are very reasonable considering the high quality of production. Currently, with over 800 O'Reilly titles and 600+ other titles, Shroff Publishers have dominated the computer book market for the past few years in India through five distribution locations, Bombay, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore and a channel of 600+ retail outlets.