On 10-03-15 12:27, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Olliver Schinagl <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey all,
On 10-03-15 08:41, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Simos Xenitellis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
As you may know, there is an introductory book about the A-Series of
Allwinner SoCs (specifically A10, A13 and A20), called "Getting
Started with Cubieboard", written by Olliver Schinagl and published by
Packt Publishing Ltd.
Read more at
https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/getting-started-cubieboard
Packt is doing some publicity for this book. What they are doing is
that they give the e-book version of the book in exchange for an
online review.
The idea is that by having several online reviews for the book, it
helps prospective buyers to decide whether to buy or not. Obviously,
you are free to write whatever you want in the review.
I offered them my help in finding such reviewers, and they are looking
for 3 persons.
Here are the details:
1. Have a look at
https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/getting-started-cubieboard
to decide if you are interested to go through this.
2. Write a review on Amazon, Google Books and goodreads.
For Amazon, you need to have an account and have bought something in
order to be able to post reviews.
3. Write a review on your personal blog or similar social media.
If you are interested in taking part, please send me a private email.
Please also add a sentence describing why it would be helpful to you
to get a copy (to be used in case there are more than 3 replies).
I'll collect replies until this Friday.
If there are any general questions, reply here.
I have no affiliation with Packt Publishing Ltd.
I got some good replies and forwarded them to Packt.
They confirmed that they will be contacting you (if they did not do
already)
with further details.
I also suggested to Packt to get someone from either CubieTech or
Allwinner to review the book.
Obviously, such a thing would be mutually beneficial in terms of
marketing.
So, if you are from CubieTech or Allwinner, do contact me in private.
Why have I not been contacted about this at all yet (by packt mostly). While
I think it's good that you are putting in effort, it feels a little as being
passed by.
In any case, it's good that the book is being pushed, and if you are from
CubieTech or Allwinner, please atleast CC me, as I am the author after all.
For the part for asking someone from CubieTech or Allwinner, it was something
I suggested in my last message to them and got a positive reply.
Most probably a private message will not work and you will need to
contact both directly.
In my initial email I got a positive reply from you, thanking me for this post.
It makes sense for these things to be done by someone else than the author.
When I replied to you, I mentioned that it would be good for this email
to make it both the Olimex and Lemaker forums. I did not offer to do that,
and it's something that you may want to pursue.
I cc:ed Tom in these emails considering that a review from him would be nice.
I did not act on that, so you may want to ping him as well.
Again, I'm am happy people are picking this up and going the extra mile,
it is much appreciated. But a 'hey what do you think if we do this or
that' would have been nice before hand.
In any case, feel free to contact them on the issue, I'd be happy to
answer any questions that arise, just keep me in the loop ;)
Olliver
Simos
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