[Tfug] [heather.fox at pearson.com: Pearson Education User Group Program- March '08]

[Judd Pickell]

Thanks for the Info.. I will persue getting my copy via the site. :)

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:56:56PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
>  > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:06:09PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
>  > > Prentice Hall is shipping us some more books shortly.  If anybody's
>  > > interested in either of the below books, let me know and I'll ask
>  > > them to also ship us copies of these.
>  >
>  > Just a quick FYI to anyone interested: I've asked Prentice Hall to
>  > send us all of the optional books.  I've also asked them to send us
>  > multiple copies of the C++/GUI book but don't know if they will.
>  > These are free review books that they send out to user groups.
>  > They're hoping to garner good will, word of mouth, etc.
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  Another followup: They can only give us one copy of the C++/Qt4 book.
>  Since there was so much interest, what I'll probably do is just bring
>  to happy hour so that people can look it over and figure out who wants
>  it most.  (Or we could have a steel-cage match; whatever people want.)
>
>  However, Heather (our contact), reminds us that we're all eligible for
>  a 35% discount on any of their books (TFUG is listed as one of their
>  registered users groups).  This is actually a pretty good deal because
>  their imprints include IBM Press and Addison-Wesley Professional,
>  which publishes a bunch of the classic Unix programming texts.  (Their
>  imprints also include Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Que, Sams, and some
>  others.  It seems like the only publishing company that they don't own
>  is O'Reilly.)
>
>  Anyway, for the 35% discount, just go to
>  http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=135939 and
>  follow the instructions for registration.
>
>
>
>  Claude
>
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