The first week of April 2005, global publisher Wiley Publishing, Inc. published Denise Gosnell’s seventh technical book entitled “Professional Development with Web APIs: Google, eBay, amazon.com, PayPal, MapPoint, FedEx, UPS.” This technical book illustrates how companies can use the web services offered by various well-known companies and also discusses how companies can follow this approach to capitalize on web services in their own organizations by offering them for free or for a fee.