BTW - let us know when we can start the ad-campaign in our blogs / websites ;-)
Ulf |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:40 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT) | |Joe, I'm not sure what you've been smoking lately, but it must |be good. A few clarifications.... | |We had more reviewers for AD3e than any other book I've done recently. |People were asking us to review the book so we never had a |problem finding enough reviewers. Rick, don't take offense. | |The book is going to be released the last day of December and |will be in stores in January. Originally they said it was |going to be in stores by December, but apparently that isn't |the case now. | |Lastly, they are expecting to sell quite a bit more than 2000 |copies. The first sell-in may be more than 2000 copies. |O'Reilly wouldn't have done this book (much less expedite it) |if they thought they'd sell only 2000 copies. They intend to |do some special promotions with this book and hopefully it |will have a significant store presence (ie, a few copies in |most stores.) The 100ft ocean liner is still out of the |question, but you should have no problem purchasing a used |hole-free 10ft jon boat with one oar off ebay. | |Regards, |Robbie Allen |http://www.rallenhome.com/ | |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe |Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:36 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT) | |Hey I needed to maintain a certain quality.... | |Did you send something to Robbie to say you wanted to review |it? In the end we were begging for reviewers, I even took Dean |as a reviewer and you know the edge I had to be on for |that.... He kept wanting to spell words wrong. |Eventually I just took out all references to the words color, |humor, and other or words. | | | |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan |Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:31 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT) | |joe said: "Again, the reviewers did a fantastic job." | |Of which, you will all notice when the book comes out, I am |_NOT_ one of those reviewers..... | |joe said: "They kept me honest...." | |Which is one of the reason _WHY_ I was not one of those reviewers.... | |Rick | |P.S. Hey, joe.... :op | |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe |Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:10 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT) | |Not out yet, I am expecting Mid November or Early December. I |sent an email to see if I can find out. | |The book is NOT written in my voice, I tried as best as |possible to maintain the voice that was there. I simply |revised it though I did add a Chapter on ADAM and a chapter on |some basic Exchange/AD Scripting. If you have the first or |second edition I think you will find this edition worthy of |picking up even if you don't have Windows Server 2003 SP1 or |R2. I tried fleshing out and changing anything I didn't feel |was "right". Also the reviewers all did a bangup job finding |things I missed. I admit I didn't sleep much in August or |September. Tony may have noticed a lull in the list volume, me |working on that book saved at least 2 bazillion helpless bits |from being sacrificed. | |I learned that revising a book may actually be harder than |writing a book from scratch and you get paid less. Well maybe |it is depending on if you know what you want to write about. |With revising you can't just write, you have to read, reread, |write, reread, write, reread, tweak, reread. When you change |the flow and feel and voice it is like hitting a brick wall |when reading. I am sure I didn't get rid of all of the bricks |but I certainly tried to knock the walls down to a point where |you can step over them without too much trouble. Anyway, I |spent less time writing the ADAM chapter than I spent updating |the security chapter. I know now that I probably should have |just rewritten from scratch and it would have gone faster. Oh |well, live and learn or don't live long. | |Again, the reviewers did a fantastic job. They kept me honest |when I tried to skip over some stuff when I got tired and I |thank them profusely. I tried to do them justice in the small |space provided to me for acknowledgements. |Those are the things people tend not to look at at the front |of the book. I do ask that if you pick up the book, you do |look. Those, folks, deserve, |the: attention. | | | joe |List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx |List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx |List archive: |http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ | List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
