Dear active PLUG members, The kind folks at O'Reilly Media were impressed with PLUG's collective response to last year's write-a-book-review-for-a-chance-to-win-a-pass contest and offered to run it again this year!
The contest: Write a public book review of any O'Reilly title for a chance to will a full sessions pass to OSCON 2015! Who is eligible: Active PLUG members, defined as those active on the mailing list or have attended two or more meetings in the last year. The winning review will be chosen based on: Depth - Do you fully appreciate the strengths & weaknesses of the book? Clarity - Do you communicate that fact and help people make a buying decision? Sincerity - Be funny or passionate! Sincere reviews sell books. Relevance/Timeliness - It is a new release? Is it a hot topic? Effort - Is this your first review? The book's first review on say, Amazon? Venue - Will anyone see your review? Amazon is great. A review should help make (and at times break) a buying decision. There ARE crap books out there but rarely from O'Reilly. I LOVE thoughtful negative reviews but they probably won't win you the pass. Vengeful reviews however, are off-putting on many levels. HOW: Simply post a link to your review to the PLUG mailing list or a verifiable form of proof that it will be printed in a future publication. HELP: O'Reilly has kindly provided a selection of free eBooks to get you going: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/get/plug2015 Just tell them it is for the PLUG contest. If you don't see something that interest you, visit http://www.oreilly.com/free/ebookrequest.csp and ask. FURTHER HELP: I am happy to give you feedback having written a few reviews myself. Consider: http://www.amazon.com/review/R24J5P38R9ZAVV DEADLINE: "Before OSCON" but I am open to a fixed, earlier deadline if it risks ruling out an active list contributor who lives outside Portland and would have to make travel arrangements. Good luck! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
