McGraw-Hill Professional Releases 'Select: eChapters in an Instant'

NEW YORK, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Professional today announced that it is releasing Select: eChapters in an Instant.  Select's collection contains more than 750 chapters of essential, market-leading information pulled from a diverse book collection of authors and experts representing the best of McGraw-Hill Professional's comprehensive library.  

McGraw-Hill Professional is the world's leading publisher of finance, business process, management, and professional books written by world-renowned authorities.  Its rich and vast content database in these topics allows for the delivery of individual content sets offering professionals practical solutions to specific business needs.  

"Our Select collections are customer focused, providing business professionals with very specific and targeted information in areas that will give them a competitive advantage," says Philip Ruppel, President of McGraw-Hill Professional. "Our Select program is another way for us to solve customer need by providing collections of market-leading content in fully searchable chunks so business professionals can get the information they need, when and where they need it."

Select: eChapters in an Instant allow consumers to easily access relevant material from stand-alone chapters of assorted works, offering professionals a variety of perspectives and approaches to a specific topic.  Of course, readers will still be able to purchase the full eBook and print book.

The Select: eChapters collections will be widely available through popular devices including Kindle, Nook, iPhone, as well as other vehicles serving libraries and institutional markets. They can also be purchased at McGraw-Hill Professional's site: www.mhprofessional.com/echapters . Prices for individual eChapters range from $6.95 to $9.95.

Select: eChapters are available from critically-acclaimed works including Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, When Markets Collide by Mohamed El-Erian, The Six Sigma Way by Peter Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh, and Lean Six Sigma by Michael George.  Please visit www.mhprofessional.com/echapters for additional details about Select: eChapters in an Instant.

"We've been a leader in publishing professional content for decades. Our mission continues to be to deliver the best and most authoritative professional content in the world -- while being platform agnostic and flexible as technology evolves," says Laura Friedman, Publisher of Digital Products and Services for Business.  

About McGraw-Hill Professional

McGraw-Hill Professional is a leading global provider of print and electronic content and services for the business, technical, and medical communities. Its offerings include reference and certification books for all professional and educational disciplines and online solutions on business and financial, medical and health, engineering, and scientific topics. For more information, visit http://www.mhprofessional.com/.

McGraw-Hill Professional is a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP). Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global information service provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education, and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2009 were $ 5.95 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

SOURCE McGraw-Hill Professional