"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hungry Minds Inc., publisher of “For Dummies” instructional books, Frommer’s travel books and CliffsNotes, said it will fire about 130 workers, or 19% of its employees, and slashed its profit outlook ...

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 ...

Wiley says that over 74,000 copies of its Photoshop guide have been shared US publisher John Wiley & Sons is demanding a trial by jury of people accused of copying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know the iPod commercial that says "there's an app for that"? Chances are, if there's something you want to learn how to do, there's a Dummies book for that. With some 1,800 titles in print, there ...