Apress Letter to the Austin Drupal Users Group and 25% Off ALL Apress books

I'm passing this along because I think it's helpful to the Drupal community and I believe all Drupal groups could benefit from it. A while back, I came across get copies of books to share as provided by greggles (thanks Greg Knaddison!) and decided to sign up the Austin Drupal Users Group with Apress as an "Apress User Group".

This week, I received a letter from Apress asking me to "remind your members of their exclusive Apress User Group Program discount of 25% off ALL Apress books!" I scanned the letter which you can view in the attached PDF file. In addition, I've attached Apress' free chapter on theming, Chapter 8, "The Theme System", as a PDF file. You should see it below under "File attachments". It's 875 KB and you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read it.

Read on for more info.

Regards,
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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I was provided a few "Open Source and Web Development Roadmap" booklets which list dozens of books on open source, e.g. Ajax, Apache, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, PHP, etc. Apress is "always looking for people interested in checking out and reviewing" their new titles. Suggestions for Writing Apress Book Reviews

If you would like to review any titles for your user group, I suggest your Drupal Users Group leader fill out the Apress User Group Program application. Apress writes, "To prevent duplicate registrations, we request that only user group leaders--not members--register their groups." Once your group leader fills out the application, he or she can then contact Cheryl Martinez as listed on the attachment to review new titles. Although I didn't scan the Roadmap, you can get a pretty good idea of it by visiting the Apress roadmaps online at their web site.

If your Drupal Users Group isn't already a registered Apress User Group, you might want to consider joining which would allow your members 25% off their books, not to mention probably a few free ones as long as you agree to review their books and post your thoughts online as mentioned in get copies of books to share.