"For Dummies" was launched in 1991 and is now one of the most popular reference book series worldwide. Absolute will be producing a number of interactive CD-ROM versions that use videos and voice ...

NEW YORK -- First Edgar Allan Poe, now "Pit Bulls for Dummies." John Wiley & Sons Inc., the original publisher of novels by Poe, Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper, is buying the financially ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ John Wiley & Sons Inc. reached an agreement Monday to purchase Hungry Minds Inc., the publisher of the ``For Dummies’’ series, for $90 million in cash. Wiley will offer shareholders $6 ...

There’s something distinctly democratic about the how-to guide, whose schtick is selling confidence to the amateur. You don’t need to be an expert, or spend years apprenticing under one, the genre ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Whether it's laying plumbing or managing Oracle databases, there's probably a For Dummies book that explains just how to do it. Now, Wiley ...

Publishing house John Wiley has joined the anti-piracy fray by filing a lawsuit against people who downloaded illicit copies of its popular “For Dummies” series. Most of the tiles in question are ...

This BEA season, for Wiley everything's coming up... dummies. This week, the publisher has big plans to celebrate 20 years of building the wildly successful For Dummies line. When For Dummies began in ...

NEW YORK — Dummies Man -- the spiky-haired character on the cover of the “For Dummies” how-to books -- is downright ubiquitous these days. There’s Flower Bulbs for Dummies, Smart Booster Cables for ...

Dummies Man — the spikey-haired character on the cover of the ubiquitous "For Dummies" line of how-to books — is turning up in a lot more places these days. There's Flower Bulbs For Dummies, Smart ...

American Dan Gookin, who wrote the first Dummies book, on computing, in 1991. The series has since expanded to tackle subjects ranging from beekeeping to Shakespeare.Credit: The thing most people ...