Here is an old message I found about the O'Reilly discounts:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Emerson, Tom (*IC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com" target="_blank">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 29, 2007 at 3:56 PM<br>Subject: [SGVLUG] More (almost) free books [and discounts...]<br>To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>><br>
<br><br>All this talk about books reminded me that we have access to "(nearly)<br>
free" O'Reilly 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 O'Reilly -- 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>
O'Reilly 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 O'Reilly so that you can get<br>
said book to review.<br>
<br>
So, if you want to "review" a book from O'Reilly [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>
O'Reilly"<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>
<br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"Small things done with great love will change the world." <br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 3:56 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com" target="_blank">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All this talk about books reminded me that we have access to "(nearly)<br>
free" O'Reilly 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 O'Reilly -- 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>
O'Reilly 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 O'Reilly so that you can get<br>
said book to review.<br>
<br>
So, if you want to "review" a book from O'Reilly [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>
O'Reilly"<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>
<br>
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