Greetings from the Academic Marketing folks at Peachpit!

We hope you had a wonderful Summer and are all ready for the Fall session. We have lots to tell you about that we hope will assist you as you teach and inspire your students.

In our Special Announcements section below you'll learn about our new Video Quickstarts, our upcoming Web Design Conference with a special education discount, and new Instructor Notes for some of our CS3 Classroom in a Book titles.

Be sure also to check out our newly released titles, our author appearances, and a special double dvd offer that features our author presentations direct from our booth at Photoshop World and Macworld San Francisco!

Special Announcements

CLASSROOM IN A BOOK INSTRUCTOR NOTES
Visit our Academic Resource Center, click on the Instructor Resources link to view Instructor Notes for the following Classroom in a Book titles:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book
Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book

VOICES THAT MATTER WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE - SPECIAL EDUCATION DISCOUNT
We're excited to announce the first Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference taking place October 22-25, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, presented by your friends at New Riders Publishing (an imprint of Peachpit).

**Share the following Special Super Discount with your students: USE THE SPECIAL EDUCATION PRIORITY CODE: WD-1948 TO RECEIVE $400 OFF ANY CORE CONFERENCE PACKAGE!

Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. It is now important that a Web designer be comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, search engine optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, and much more.

At the Voices That Matter: Web Design conference, our lineup of speakers will teach you and your students new techniques. Some will show them how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire them to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions. For a full list of sessions and registration info, visit
http://voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007/wdsessions.html

THE PEACHPIT EXPERIENCE DVD FOR INSTRUCTORS
If your students have never attended a computer conference, here's a chance for you to expose them to the live action from the show floor. The Peachpit Experience Double Feature brings you over two hours, on two DVDs, of fifteen of our best-selling Mac and Photoshop authors live from the Peachpit booth at both Photoshop World Las Vegas and Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco!

Your students will hear from the likes of Scott Kelby, author of The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers; Sandee Cohen, author of the soon to be released InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide; Stu Mashwitz, author of The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap; Peter Kirn, author of Real World Digital Audio; and more from other top authors!

If you are interested in showing this DVD to your class go to http://www.peachpit.com/peachpitexperience and sign up to receive your free instructor copy today! Once you and your class have viewed the DVD we would love to get your feedback, send your thoughts to academic@peachpit.com. Let us know what response you got from your students and if you would be interested in viewing more in the future.

SAMPLE OUR NEW VIDEO QUICKSTARTS!
Our best-selling Visual QuickStart Guide series is now available as online video. Video QuickStarts combine the practical, step-by-step approach of the Visual QuickStart Guide series with the immediacy of online learning to offer an all-new approach to mastering new applications, technologies, and techniques quickly. Each Video QuickStart offers short, task-based instruction and rich graphics to demonstrate key concepts. Simply make your purchase online, log in, and within minutes you will be learning from your desktop.
 
For a limited time we're offering instructors access to sample two of the Video Quickstarts - "Flash for Video" and "Final Cut Pro for Beginners". Go to peachpit.com and login in using the email address: PeachpitAcademic@gmail.com, and the password: quickstart. Under the heading Digital Purchases you can click on either of the Video Quickstarts to begin viewing.

After viewing the videos we'd like to hear your thoughts on it. Go to http://www.peachpit.com/videofeedback and fill out our questionaire. We appreciate you taking the time to do this, your feedback is very valuable to us. To view our other online video offerings go to http://www.peachpit.com/video.
 
Peachpit is developing some new digital products and would love your feedback! If you are willing to participate in one of our focus groups, please send your contact info to academic@peachpit.com. YouÕll get coupons for book discounts, free digital products and the knowledge that you are helping us to craft the best product possible.  Please include your name, email, phone number, area of expertise (web, design, graphics, photo, video, audio, etc.) and applications or classes taught.  We will not use this information for any other purpose.

Author Appearances

ZAG WEEK
Philadelphia September 18-20
Marty Neumeier, New Riders/AIGA Design Press author of ZAG and The Brand Gap, is offering a series of three-day branding workshops. For conference dates and registration information visit: http://www.zagweek.com/

POWERUP WITH FINAL CUT STUDIO
Final Cut Guru and Peachpit author Larry Jordan is back and he's coming to a city near you with all new supercharged PowerUP seminars. For a listing of cities and dates and to register for a seminar visit: http://www.larryjordan.biz/seminars

APERTURE ROAD TOUR: GET YOUR WORKFLOW IN GEAR!
Peachpit is proud to sponsor the Aperture Users Professional Network, Aperture Road Tour. This 12 city tour offers a full day of photographic training. To view a listing of cities and dates, and to register for a seminar go to, http://ApertureRoadTour.Com

Upcoming Conferences

PHOTOSHOP WORLD
September 6-8      
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
Las Vegas, NV

FLASHFORWARD2007
September 19-21
Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA

VOICES THAT MATTER: GOOGLE WEB TOOLKIT
December 3-6, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Presented by Addison-Wesley Professional and Prentice Hall Professional

REQUEST AN EXAMINATION COPY

To order an examination copy for your course, click on the Instructor copy link on each book page at http://www.peachpit.com or contact your local Prentice Hall representative. To obtain the name of your representative, call Faculty Services at 800-526-0485 or visit online at http://vig.prenhall.com/replocator.