RSS Feeds
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What are RSS feeds?
If you are like most people you probably don't have time to surf the web all day, but you probably have several favorite web sites you like to visit regularly. RSS feeds allow you to subscribe to content from all your favorite web sites then view the most current parts of those sites in one location. The best part is subscribing to RSS feeds is free, easy to do, and it will save you a lot of time.
How do you subscribe to feeds?
You can subscribe to RSS feeds using "readers" which are also sometimes called "aggregators". Most modern web browsers like Internet Explore and Firefox have readers built into them. To subscribe just look for the orange RSS icon 
on our site and click on it. This will take you to the actual RSS feed. Copy the URL in the navigation bar then open up your reader. Find the add subscription button in your reader and click on it. Then just paste the URL into the input box and click save. It's that simple. Now every time you open up your reader you have the freshest content from all your favorite sites including SDC Publications!
SDC Publications' RSS Feeds
Textbook categories
We know it's tough keeping up with all the newest software and textbook releases. That's why SDC Publications offers feeds to all our popular textboook categories. For example, lets say you're an instructor that teaches an AutoCAD course and you need to stay current with the newest release. You can subscribe to our AutoCAD feed and always see what new titles are available for AutoCAD without having to check our website! Now lets say you teach several CAD courses and use multiple CAD Packages! Its just as easy to stay up-to-date. Just subscribe to our CAD feed and now you'll be able to see all our newest CAD textbooks.
You might want to subscribe to these feeds:
Author's textbooks
Do you have a favorite SDC author? We have made it possible for you to follow any authors' newest realeses so you can always be up-to-date with their newest books. To Subscribe to an author's feed navigate to their page by going to the the authors section of our site or by finding one of their books and clicking on their name under the list of authors. On the author's page a link to their feed is provided under the books section.
Errata pages
If you are an instructor or student using one of our textbooks you will definitly want to subscribe to that book's errata (corrections) feed. Every textbook has an errata page and errata feed. All the corrections for that book are listed in the order in which they occur in the book. Then, all you have to do is check the feed for corrections as you go through the book. To subscribe navigate to the book's page on our website and click on the errata page link. Here you can view and submit corrections and you will find a link to subscribe to the errata feed.
What RSS Reader should you use?
There are thousands of readers available and almost all of them are free. RSS readers are built into web browsers, e-mail clients, search engines and web pages or available as desktop applications. Using your web browsers built in RSS reader is a great option. Other popular options include Google Reader, Microsoft Outook, and My Yahoo. To make subscribing to RSS Feeds most convenient we recommend that you choose an application you already use frequently and that has support for RSS feeds. For a complete list or RSS feed readers click here.
How to subscribe to RSS feeds using Internet Explorer
- Click on the orange RSS icon on our site. This will take you to the feed.
- Find the star with a green plus sign towards the top of the page and click it.
- A box will appear asking you if you want to subscribe. Click subscribe.
- Now this feed will appear in your favorites list!
How to subscribe to RSS feeds using Firefox
- Click on the orange RSS icon on our site. This will take you to the feed.
- Make sure the drop down menu at the top of the page says: "Subscribe to this feed using live bookmarks"
- Click the "Subscribe Now" button.
- A window will appear asking you where you want to save this feed. Select: "Bookmarks Toolbar".
- Click: "Add".
- Now this feed will appear in your tool bar at the top of the window!
How to subscribe to RSS feeds using Microsoft Outlook
- Click on the orange RSS icon on our site. This will take you to the feed.
- Copy the URL in the navigation bar.
- Open Microsoft Outlook.
- Find the "RSS Feeds" bar under the "Mail Folder" tab along the left side of the window.
- Right click on the "RSS Feeds" bar. A menu will appear. Select the "Add a new RSS feed" option.
- A window will appear promting you to enter the URL of the feed. Paste the URL you copied earlier and click "Save".
- Another window will appear asking you to confirm that you want to add this feed. Click "Yes".
- Now everytime you click on the "RSS Feeds" bar your feeds will appear in a similar fashion as your emails!
How to subscribe to RSS feeds using Google Reader
- Click on the orange RSS icon on our site. This will take you to the feed.
- Copy the URL in the navigation bar.
- Navigate to Google Reader.
- Log in to your google account or create a new account (don't worry it's quick and easy).
- Click on the "Add a subscription" button located at the top left hand side of the page.
- A window will appear prompting you to enter the URL of the feed. Paste the URL you copied earlier and click "Add"
- Now your new feed will appear under the "Subscriptions" section along the left hand side!