Hi and welcome to the mac-access list, I'm afraid that O'Reilly's half price Back to Schools Sale expired some hours ago, but let me give you some more details about some eBook reading alternatives (on computer related topics) and general information on O'Reilly promotions.
First of all, I believe that once you sign up for an account at O'Reilly to purchase ebooks, you can always use their buy 2, get a third book free coupon code of "OPC10" (without the quote marks) at checkout for books that are not on any other promotion. They run an eBook "Deal of the Day" feed that you can subscribe to or check. I think the pricing discount code usually runs at least until the next "Deal of the Day" is up, because the new deals are usually up frequently, but not every day. Visiting their eBook page at their web page: http://oreilly.com/ebooks/ always brings up the current promotion, with an option to subscribe to the RSS feed (that I give directly below). The O'Reilly Ebook Deal of the Day RSS feed is: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday For example, today's promotion is 50% off all eBooks dealing with the R programming language. "Arrr! Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day with R Save 50% - Ebook Deal of the Day" O'Reilly eBooks are also available to international subscribers to Bookshare, if you find it useful enough to pay the yearly subscription. (The list of internationally available Bookshare books is considerably less than for U.S. subscribers, depending on the publishers' copyright decisions, but O'Reilly books have always all been internationally available. This is consistent with their policy of directly supplying Bookshare with the digital content and also with their promoting sales of DRM-free ebooks. If you check the Mail Archive post for this list (one of the links at the bottom of each post), and type in a search term into the text box like: from:Esther O'Reilly and then press "return", you'll find that I've announced some of these half price promotions in the past. These are generally when the "Missing Manuals" eBooks for the iOS devices or for upgrades to new versions of OS X on the Mac appear. However, you can also check the links to this post: • Re: Notes regarding the newly-updated Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 Preview 4 http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/msg10093.html That post from June is about prospects for reading eBook textbooks on iOS devices, as well as a follow-up to discussions of the desktop reader for reading eBooks with Adobe's ADE DRM on Macs and Windows machines, but I'll excerpt and quote the section dealing with free O'Reilly eBooks on related topics: <begin quote> There are a number of free eBooks available from O'Reilly press on the future of electronic publishing, and the prospects with new standards of ePub 3 and HTML 5. You can get them either from iBooks or from the O'Reilly site. (The difference being that at the O'Reilly site you'll have access to multiple DRM-free formats, and they will always update the version you can download from your account with the latest information. Also, for an earlier publication, such as the "Breaking the Page" preview, they also have DAISY format). So links are to the O'Reilly site, but you can also find them in iBooks. Here are some of the most highly rated and most topical of those free books: • Publishing with iBooks Author An Introduction to Creating Ebooks for the iPad By Nellie McKesson, Adam Witwer http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do • Accessible EPUB 3 Best Practices for Creating Universally Usable Content By Matt Garrish http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025283.do • HTML5 for Publishers By Sanders Kleinfeld http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022473.do • Breaking the Page: Preview Edition By Peter Meyers (3 chapter free sampler of full book) http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020677.do The Preview version of this last ebook has a further description at one of the O'Reilly pages: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/breaking-the-page-preview.html <end quote> Finally, another really excellent set of computer eBooks is the Take Control series. The mac-access list has a number of special purchase deals for list members to receive special discounts. You can read about this at the link to "Breaking News!" at the main mac-access web page: <http://www.mac-access.net/NewsFlash!.html> This includes the Take Control eBooks and the sArchiver software. You'll need to follow the instructions on that page for purchasing such items. In general, this involves off-list contacts with Gordon and Lynne using the specified contact link or, in the case of U.S. list members purchasing the Take Control books, using the link to contact Travis Siegel to handle the transaction. Note that you must be a mac-access list member for a minimum time before you can purchase the Take Control books at the substantial discount. I'm not sure whether you're interested primarily in the books dealing with iOS devices or with the ones dealing with the Mac, but both are covered in the Take Control series. They are, however, more focused on Mac-related topics. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Damashe Thomas wrote: > Hi Ester, > Thanks for the news. Your information is about cost me some money, but it > will be half as much, I guess. Fifty percent off makes me want to buy more. > Thanks for the update though. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <mori...@mac-access.net> > To: "Mac OSX & D2C2A315-EE6F-452D-AA60-C9DF08E1C1F1:ABMailRecent" > <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:13 PM > Subject: All O'Reilly e-Books 50% sale today-only > > > Hi All, > > All O'Reilly ebooks are on sale today for 50% off regular prices if you apply > a coupon code of "B2S2" (without the quotation marks) as part of their "Back > to School Sale" special. I think this runs through till just before midnight > Pacific Standard Time (a little over 8 more hours). These are typically > computer books, and included labels are for O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, Site > Point, and No Starch. All titles are sold without any digital rights > managements (so you can read them on your desktop as well as on an iOS device > or Android device.) > > Here's the web page: > http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/b2s-2012-special.do > > You do need to create a log in account. You get permanent access to all > electronic formats and all minor updates to that title through you account. > On many older O'Reilly titles, they now offer DAISY versions, as well as > ePub, mobi, PDF, etc. Afterwards, you can re-download the latest version of > these books from your account in any of these formats. I believe you also > get notifications by email if there are new formats or versions. You do need > to visit the link in your receipt, or on your email, or on the completed web > page purchase to download the actual ebooks once you've bought them. And if > you want to browse their general eBook page at any later time, the URL is: > http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do > > Here are a few titles that looked interesting, with prices before discount. > (Note, these also become available through Bookshare, but people outside the > U.S. may want to purchase individual titles): > > • Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition by David > Pogue (September 2012)(list price Ebook: $23.99) > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025641.do > > • OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual by David Pogue (September 2012) > (list price Ebook: $27.99) > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025634.do > > And for computer programmers or the more technically oriented: > • Introducing Regular Expressions by Michael Fitzgerald (July 2012) (list > price Ebook: $23.99) > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920012337.do > > • Learning Cocoa with Objective-C [Developing for the Mac and iOS App > Stores], 3rd edition by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning (September > 2012) (list price Ebook $31.99) > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023203.do > > • Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion [Using Unix and Linux Tools at the > Command Line], 1st edition by Dave Taylor (August 2012) (list price Ebook > $12.99) > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025870.do > > HTH. And sorry for the late announcement; I just caught this while browing > the O'Reilly web pages. > > Cheers, > > Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
