Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress

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Author: john
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Book Reviews from Apress
Hi

I would be interested in reviewing

Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
         Peck, Akkana


if it covers Gimp version 2.6.

> The first person to review the book gets to keep the book if they want to
> but if anyone else wants to review it then you have to let them have it for
> them to review it.


What are the logistics of getting a copy, passing a copy onto someone else and
then returning it if necessary.

John Eayrs

On Sunday 29 March 2009 13:06:34 Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> If anyone has any desire to review Apress books, here are a smattering of
> their recent and shortly to be published books, let me know if you are
> interested and I'll see if they will give you a copy to review.
>
> Dive Into Python 3
>         Pilgrim, Mark
> Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
>         Kemp, Juliet
> Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
>         Cooper, Peter
> Free Software for Creative People: Building Digital Media with Blender,
>     GIMP, Scribus, Audacity, and More
>         James, Daniel
> The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Second Edition
>         Holovaty, Adrian
> Pro Git
>         Aljord, Patrick
> Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fourth Edition
>         Thomas, Keir
> Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the Linux Shell
>         Johnson, Chris F.A.
> Pro Linux System Administration
>         Turnbull, James
> Foundations of CentOS Linux: Enterprise Linux On the Cheap
>         Sicam, Chivas
> Ubuntu on a Dime: The Path to Low-Cost Computing
>         Kelly, James Floyd
> The Definitive Guide to CentOS
>         Membrey, Peter
> The Definitive Guide to Samba 4
>         Smith, Roderick W.
> Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition
>         Rahmel, Dan
> Python 3 for Absolute Beginners
>         Hall, Tim
> Beginning the Linux Command Line
>         van Vugt, Sander
> Pro Ubuntu Server Administration
>         van Vugt, Sander
> Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional
>         Seebach, Peter
> Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
>         Peck, Akkana
> Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition
>         VanDyk, John K.
> Beginning Ubuntu LTS Server Administration:
>     From Novice to Professional, 2nd Ed
>         van Vugt, Sander
> Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition
>     Thomas, Keir

>
> They want a fair review that is visible to the world. We'll publish it on
> the LUG web site and preferably somewhere else highly visible e.g. Amazon.
> You can say what you like but please keep any comments professional and
> helpful.
>
> The first person to review the book gets to keep the book if they want to
> but if anyone else wants to review it then you have to let them have it for
> them to review it.