Bookstore reports from SAS Global Forum: day one

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 24, 2012

Resourceful Publications colleagues shared highlights of day one at SAS Global Forum. SAS documentation, Kindle Fire surveys, SAS students, preview copies, and high-performance analytics top the list: Sean Gargan – Director, SAS Publishing Monday morning musing from the Bookstore at SAS Global Forum… I had the good fortune to meet three enterprising [...]

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Your questions answered at SAS Global Forum

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 29, 2012

The bookstore is a happening place at SAS Global Forum. You can shop onsite and save money on books, mingle with 30+ SAS authors, try to win giveaways (hint: follow @SASPublishing on Twitter and monitor the SAS Global Forum hashtag #SASGF12 and/or enter a couple of surveys) and chat with [...]

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The 10 most popular SAS Documentation titles of 2011

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 18, 2012

How many of you routinely refer to SAS Documentation? Are there some heavy hitters you continuously turn to? When looking at the high traffic to documentation pages on the support.sas.com site in 2011, it’s evident that some titles are definitely resonating with SAS users. As promised (in a recent post on the 9 Bestselling SAS [...]

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What’s the name of the first SAS book that you used?

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 22, 2011

This question and the 53 comments that followed became a highlight of SAS Publishing’s social media engagement in 2011. We initially posed this question on our Fans of SAS Books LinkedIn page earlier in the year and responses occasionally still trickle in. I’ve greatly enjoyed reading users’ experiences with their “first” [...]

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Our 9 bestselling books in November

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 6, 2011

Last month’s bestseller list is an eclectic blend of new, tried and true, and titles related to what you do. (think industry). SAS Press books do cover a wide variety of topics. But these top 9 in November are a particularly striking example of that. November was a strong month for us. And we publish [...]

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What's new in SAS 9.3 Documentation

Marie Dexter
Marie Dexter|September 15, 2011

SAS 9.3 is here! In addition to the many new features and enhancements to the software, you will find changes to the SAS documentation as well. For example, the SAS Product Documentation page on support.sas.com has been redesigned to help you find information faster. These changes are presented in the [...]

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Having a SAS book on the Kindle

Katie Green|July 19, 2011

Anyone that keeps up with this blog knows that I’m quite fond of my SAS books. So the thought of having an electronic copy of a book seemed a bit daunting at first. But, while at PHARMSUG this past May, I was fortunate enough to be awarded a Kindle from [...]

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100 SAS books for $29.95!

Sandy Varner
Sandy Varner|March 18, 2011

Third Edition of SAS OnlineDoc® 9.2 PDF Files released today It’s not often that you can purchase an entire library of reference documentation for less than the cost of a single book. However, that’s exactly what you can do if you purchase the SAS OnlineDoc 9.2 PDF Files. This stand-alone [...]

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Subscribe to SAS Publishing News--and as a bonus get to know Judi Rourke!

Judi Rourke|March 8, 2011

When I began my job at SAS in 1999 (I was only 14 years old at the time), one of my responsibilities was taking over the production of a listserv called NEWDOCNEWS. The listserv consisted of all the new titles from Books By Users (now SAS Press) and SAS Documentation [...]

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