[SGVLUG] Fwd: More (almost) free books [and discounts...]

[Swantje]

Here is an old message I found about the O'Reilly discounts:

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From: Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com>
Date: Tue, May 29, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Subject: [SGVLUG] More (almost) free books [and discounts...]
To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>


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...]




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On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 3:56 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <
Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:

> 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...]
>
>
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