On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in
Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this?
--Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA
Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about ================================ So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper "Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS": We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment.
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