Book Publishers' User Group Programs

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Tod Birdsall

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Jul 20, 2007, 5:46:57 PM7/20/07

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Has anyone recently read a technology related book and reviewed it
online? The review can be in just about any form, Amazon.com review,
blog post, etc.

If you have, please reply to this post with the URL.

Many of the publishers have user group programs. I have registered
with O'Reilly, Wrox, Sams, and QUE.

They may send us books if any of us are willing to review them online.

As an example, here are the benefits of the O'Reilly User Group
Program:

Review copies:
O'Reilly offers free review copies of our books to qualified
groups. As the group contact, you may request a free review copy for
your newsletter or web site. Requests for review copies MUST be
submitted by you, as the contact of your group. If you wish for the
review copy to be shipped to someone other than yourself, please
supply
the name, address and phone number of that person for shipment. Once a
review of a book has been written, please send me a copy.

Discounts:
Your group members are entitled to a discount on O'Reilly products
purchased directly from us. Information for placing an order is
provided on the discount flyers that will be shipped to you, upon
acceptance to the program. Your members are also entitled to a
discount on O'Reilly conferences and tutorials. Other special discount
offers may also be forwarded to your group from time to time.

Other benefits:
In addition, we regularly donate books and other promotional items for
raffles or auctions to help your group raise money, or for meeting
door
prizes. On a quarterly basis, we'll send our latest catalog. Some of
our authors are willing to speak at user group meetings--let us know
if
you are interested and well do what we can to help you arrange
speakers.