Smoking.... Nothing... Inhaling.... Well mortar and grout dust mostly... Yeah there were a lot of reviewers and yes I expect to see more than 2000 sold. I was being sarcastic. I know I shouldn't spring new MO's on people like that. ;o)
Just the same folks, buy buy buy. Give to every person you know that uses or touches or knows how to spell AD. Also give to every person you know who works for MS, even if you think they already received a copy. I expect to see sales in the hundreds of thousands just for those larger companies like GM and Walmart and Toyota, etc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:40 AM 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/
