[SGVLUG] Anyone know about SGVLUG O'Reilly Books connection?

[Shang-Lin Chen]

Oops, I didn't notice that Lan's email already included the link.

I think you can just enter the DSUG code when you check out online to get
the 35% discount.

Shang-Lin

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Shang-Lin Chen <shanglin.chen at gmail.com>wrote:

> I found Tom's original email about it in my archive. The code DSUG gets a
> 35% discount. Presumably, Tom registered our group for the user group
> program to get free books, but somebody should contact them so that we
> don't end up with a duplicate registration: http://oreilly.com/ug/
>
>
> All this talk about books reminded me that we have access to "(nearly)
>> free" O'Reilly books [as well as a 35% discount]
>>
>>   First, the easy part: to get a 35% discount, use the code "DSUG" when
>> ordering on-line from O'Reilly -- this is available to everyone (mainly
>> because we don't have any "formal" means of identifying "members", so by
>> default, "everyone" who reads this is a member for purposes of getting
>> the discount...) and is "easy" because you don't have to have anyone
>> else do anything for you to get this.
>>
>>   Now, the not-so-easy part: getting books "for free" (or nearly so):
>> O'Reilly does offer "review" copies of their books.  All they ask is
>> that you actually post a review somewhere (I'll even create a section on
>> our website for reviews if you get them to me)  The "review" doesn't
>> need to be the size of the book -- just a couple of paragraphs will do.
>> I realize that this doesn't sound hard, but the hard part is getting
>> --ME-- to actually forward your request to O'Reilly so that you can get
>> said book to review.
>>
>>   So, if you want to "review" a book from O'Reilly [which, BTW, includes
>> their sub-publishers: "no starch press", Paraglyph, PC Publishing,
>> Pragmatic, Rocky Nook(?), SitePoint, and YoungJin] here is what you need
>> to do:
>>
>>    1) send me an e-mail with the subject "I want to review <title> from
>> O'Reilly"
>>    2) in the body, include the title and the book's ISBN
>>    3) ALSO include your mailing address
>>    4) [the hard part] KEEP ON MY CASE to get this done ;)
>>
>> Yes, I know it should only take "a few seconds" for me to forward an
>> item, but because it is so quick and easy to do, I tend to put it off
>> (in deference to "getting something more difficult done first") and
>> ultimately forget about it (my bad)  [and double-yes, I've gone through
>> the Franklin/covey time management seminars AND have a planner, so I
>> should know how to avoid this fall-through-the-crack problem, but
>> writing down "forward e-mail for book review" and assigning it an
>> ABC/123 ranking would take longer than actually forwarding the e-mail,
>> so I never write it down...]
>>
>
>
> Shang-Lin
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:55 PM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lan,
>>
>> iirc Tom may have done this for us.
>>
>> thanks
>> matti
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
>> *To:* SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 10, 2012 6:17 PM
>> *Subject:* [SGVLUG] Anyone know about SGVLUG O'Reilly Books connection?
>>
>> Hi,
>> At the last meeting, Claude asked about the LUG O'Reilly Books discount
>> O'Reilly still has their User Group program.
>> http://oreilly.com/ug/
>> Does anyone remember who signed up for SGVLUG? Or how the promo code
>> works? It might have been mentioned on the original SGVLUG website before.
>> Or in the mailing list way back when.
>> I think the User Group program is good for more than discounts off
>> O'Reilly Books, so perhaps we can sign up again and get swag and promos to
>> the group.
>> Lan
>>
>>
>>
>
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