[Kc] Book Reviews

[Garrett Goebel]

On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Moore wrote:

> * If you're interested in reviewing an O'Reilly book for the gang in
>   coming months, Garrett (our fearless moderator in absentia) can
>   order a copy of it FOR FREE, provided that you present the review to
>   us, write it up, and allow it to be used for promotion or
>   something. (Garrett, are there any actual available rules to this?)

Requesting books for review is achieved by having one of the KCPM  
facilitators contact marsee at oreilly dot com and request the book  
on the reviewer's behalf. The next time I send in a request, I'll let  
Marsee know to consider myself, David Nicol, and Andrew Moore as the  
current KCPM facilitators.

Here is the link to the O'Reilly book review guidelines:
http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html

When you write a review, you should send a copy to kc at pm dot org  
and marsee at oreilly dot org with the subject heading prefix: "Book  
Review" followed by the title of the book. Then nudge the KCPM  
facilitators until your book review shows up at http://kc.pm.org/ 
reviews.shtml.

Actually writing reviews for the books requested goes a long way  
toward insuring the good will of O'Reilly on their supporting our  
free books for review. I.e., I'm not prone to send in book requests  
for people that don't have a track record of writing reviews.

The book reviews don't have to be long or favorable. A short honest  
review does the trick. If you get writer's block, you can always look  
for book reviews on slashdot.org or amazon. Do try to put a personal  
spin on it... i.e. don't be a plagiarist ;)  O'Reilly likes to  
encourage you to post your reviews to amazon and slashdot as well.  
But that is your prerogative.

cheers,

Garrett