Mike Walsh's WSS and more - Now there are SharePoint books in Kindle format

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Now there are SharePoint books in Kindle format

It's perhaps a bit of a stretch to imagine that everyone knows what a Kindle is so here's a brief explanation.

It's a handheld wireless reader device for books. It's made by Amazon, sold only - as far as I know - in the US, and it's gimmic is that you no longer need to connect the reader to a PC to add content to it, but can receive content wirelessly.

How that fits with the fact that you can buy Kindle editions of books on-line at the Amazon.com site is beyond me and it's even more beyond me why anyone would want to pay the prices (= standard Amazon real book prices) that Amazon wants for them, but there we are.

This note is naturally to say that I've now discovered a bunch of six Kindle editions of SharePoint (2007) books, so I've added a Kindle group (at the bottom) to the books list here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

where I list the ones that are already out (another is listed but not yet out and has no pricing, so I'll keep checking for newly released ones on a regular basis).

So if you want to see which books publishers thought were worth putting out in a Kindle edition, look there. Also be warned. I don't list one SharePoint book that is out in a Kindle edition because it is the *2003* version of an almost identical-looking 2007 book (Wrox - Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration)

2/27/2008 12:54:17 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Comments [2] Other Computer | SharePoint |

2/27/2008 11:34:58 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

One of the things I thought was most awesome about the SharePoint 2007 Administrator's Companion is that in the back of the book, they provide a CD with a PDF eBook. For free!

I also took advantage of the Apress deal where they offered to sell the eBook version of any book you already own for $10 (deal has since expired). I got the Scott Hillier book this way.

I am also a huge fan of Manning Press, because of their Early Access Program--again, the early access editions and the final edition are distributed as PDFs.

Anyway, I'm a fan of eBooks, at least in theory, and if they don't cost me too much.

Peter |peterAT NOSPAMpseale dot com

2/28/2008 8:55:40 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

I'm keen on e-books too and especially for ones included for nothing with a book that itself doesn't cost an extra $10 or so because of the CD. (Tip: The Penelope Coventry book on SPD 2007 also has an e-book enclosed).

But I'm not a fan of paying as much for an e-book as for a hard copy (and that - if you ignore postage - is what they are trying to achieve with these Kindle versions of SP books.

Mike

P.S. I have the Scott Hillier book too. I expected the "e-book for $10" offer to be still valid if I needed it. So it's annoying that it's gone.

Mike Walsh |englantilainenAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com

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