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We get several books a year from Pearson (Addison-Wesley, SAMS, Prentice-Hall). When I receive the books I'll bring them to the next meeting. Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:24:44 -0500 From: "Fox, Heather" <[hidden email]> Hello User Group Leaders, We hope you're enjoying the Pearson Education User Group Program, including- among other benefits- an ongoing 35% member discount, a monthly contest and a quarterly UG Program newsletter. All UG Program benefits are available here: www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome <http://www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome> As your Linux liaison, I'm writing to tell you about the new books you will soon receive for your LUG. These include: - the latest book from bestselling author Mark Sobell! "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux". www.informit.com/title/013236039X <http://www.informit.com/title/013236039X> - a new "Unleashed" title from SAMS Publishing: "Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed", 3rd Edition, authored by Andrew and Paul Hudson; www.informit.com/title/0672329697 <http://www.informit.com/title/0672329697> We have additional new titles which I'd be happy to ship you, but you must first reply to me to with your specific picks: -- Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie North; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0136135609 <http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0136135609> -- RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Video LiveLessons) by Aurelius Prochazka; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321517067 <http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321517067> -- New Paperback Edition! Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Paperback Edition, 2nd Edition by W. Richard Stevens <http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=e1e71361-53ac-42f0-97c2-131c 6fb02d32> , W. Richard Stevens <http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=2021c3ba-3c4c-478a-a8ef-8251 e39f2d4a> , Stephen A. Rago <http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=9d0900f8-cd4c-4976-8949-62c1 e58512f6> ; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321525949 <http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321525949> -- Implementing ITIL Configuration Management by By Larry Klosterboer; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132425939 <http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132425939> As always, please ask your members to return their support with feedback-good, bad or indifferent to: [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]> ! We also encourage UG members to post their opinions directly on Amazon.com, BN.com, Slashdot.org, or any relevant technical site that accepts user content. A couple more news items! -- Linux Journal 2008 Readers' Choice Survey- Be sure your members cast their votes! (Polls close Feb 14th!); http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006101 -- 40% Discount to The 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo! (SCALE) To be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. Register today with a 40% User Group discount!! The promo code is PEAR2: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ REMINDER: ONGOING MEMBER DISCOUNT! Pearson UG members receive up to 35% off every purchase on InformIT.com and our partner imprint sites (ciscopress.com <http://www.ciscopress.com> and ibmpressbooks.com <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com> )! Just follow these easy steps for savings: -- Create an Informit account: https://memberservices.informit.com/my_account/register.aspx -- Enter the following member code: USERGROUP -- LOGIN at any time to automatically receive the special pricing! Many thanks, Heather Fox ***************** Heather L. Fox, Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison Addison-Wesley Professional < IBM Press < Prentice Hall Professional < Que Publishing < Sams Publishing Publishing imprints of Pearson Education [hidden email] Office Ph: 212-641-6539 *Mobile*: 201-362-7763 Geo: c/o Pearson Education, 1330 6th Ave., 35th Floor NY, NY 10019 *********************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. *********************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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