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: <a href="http://oreilly.com/ug/">http://oreilly.com/ug/</a><br>
<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">All this talk about books reminded me that we have access to "(nearly)<br>
free" <span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span> books [as well as a 35% discount]<br><br>
First, the easy part: to get a 35% discount, use the code "DSUG" when<br>
ordering on-line from <span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span> -- this is available to everyone (mainly<br>
because we don't have any "formal" means of identifying "members", so by<br>
default, "everyone" who reads this is a member for purposes of getting<br>
the discount...) and is "easy" because you don't have to have anyone<br>
else do anything for you to get this.<br><br>
Now, the not-so-easy part: getting books "for free" (or nearly so):<br><span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span> does offer "review" copies of their books. All they ask is<br>
that you actually post a review somewhere (I'll even create a section on<br>
our website for reviews if you get them to me) The "review" doesn't<br>
need to be the size of the book -- just a couple of paragraphs will do.<br>
I realize that this doesn't sound hard, but the hard part is getting<br>
--ME-- to actually forward your request to <span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span> so that you can get<br>
said book to review.<br><br>
So, if you want to "review" a book from <span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span> [which, BTW, includes<br>
their sub-publishers: "no starch press", Paraglyph, PC Publishing,<br>
Pragmatic, Rocky Nook(?), SitePoint, and YoungJin] here is what you need<br>
to do:<br><br>
1) send me an e-mail with the subject "I want to review <title> from<br><span>O</span>'<span>Reilly</span>"<br>
2) in the body, include the title and the book's ISBN<br>
3) ALSO include your mailing address<br>
4) [the hard part] KEEP ON MY CASE to get this done ;)<br><br>
Yes, I know it should only take "a few seconds" for me to forward an<br>
item, but because it is so quick and easy to do, I tend to put it off<br>
(in deference to "getting something more difficult done first") and<br>
ultimately forget about it (my bad) [and double-yes, I've gone through<br>
the Franklin/covey time management seminars AND have a planner, so I<br>
should know how to avoid this fall-through-the-crack problem, but<br>
writing down "forward e-mail for book review" and assigning it an<br>
ABC/123 ranking would take longer than actually forwarding the e-mail,<br>
so I never write it down...]<br></blockquote>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>Shang-Lin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:55 PM, matti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Hi Lan,</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br><span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span>iirc Tom may have done this for us.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">thanks</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
matti</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Lan Dang <<a href="mailto:l.dang@ymail.com" target="_blank">l.dang@ymail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> SGVLUG Discussion List. <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 10, 2012 6:17 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [SGVLUG] Anyone know about SGVLUG O'Reilly Books connection?<br> </font> </div><div><div> <br>
<div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"><div>Hi,</div>
<div>At the last meeting, Claude asked about the LUG O'Reilly Books discount</div>
<div>O'Reilly still has their User Group program.<br>
<a href="http://oreilly.com/ug/" target="_blank">http://oreilly.com/ug/</a></div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>Lan<br>
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