Seeing my review material in promotional announcements...
Category Book Reviews
Since most all the tech books I review are provided gratis by the publishers (like O'Reilly, Apress, Addison Wesley, Prentice-Hall, Wiley, and others), I make sure to send them a copy of the review via email at the same time I post it here and on Amazon. The basic unwritten agreement is that I get the book, they get the review, and they can use the review in whatever way they wish. Occasionally I'll get an email from a publisher contact asking for permission to use some quote from the review for promotional material (which I always grant). This could be something for the book cover on a 2nd printing, or perhaps a news release on a book.
The review I did for Performance Tuning For Linux Servers ended up in the news release category over on NewsForge as a New Book Announcement.
Always sort of cool to see your name show up somewhere (so long as it's not an obituary or a "be on the lookout for" alert)...
Since most all the tech books I review are provided gratis by the publishers (like O'Reilly, Apress, Addison Wesley, Prentice-Hall, Wiley, and others), I make sure to send them a copy of the review via email at the same time I post it here and on Amazon. The basic unwritten agreement is that I get the book, they get the review, and they can use the review in whatever way they wish. Occasionally I'll get an email from a publisher contact asking for permission to use some quote from the review for promotional material (which I always grant). This could be something for the book cover on a 2nd printing, or perhaps a news release on a book.
The review I did for Performance Tuning For Linux Servers ended up in the news release category over on NewsForge as a New Book Announcement.
Always sort of cool to see your name show up somewhere (so long as it's not an obituary or a "be on the lookout for" alert)...
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And it's high on my list of favorite words, too!
Posted by Duffbert At 12:04:37 On 29/06/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by Ferdy At 11:42:50 On 29/06/2005 | - Website - |