O'Reilly User Groups

O'Reilly provides copies of our books for your members to review in your newsletter, website, and other book review sites.

Please send a copy of your book review to Marsee or Jon ( ). Include "Book Review" and the title of the book in your subject line of your email.

You can also send reviews to:

Marsee Henon and Jon Johns
O'Reilly Media
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Besides posting reviews on your user group's site, newsletter, or mailing list, we encourage reviewers to post reviews on their favorite sites such as Amazon, Slashdot, Barnes & Noble, and oreilly.com. To post a review on oreilly.com, just click on the "Reader Review" link of any book page on our online catalog.

Example Review

Mac OS X Hints
Reviewed by Brian Redman,
Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group

I knew from his macosxhints web site Rob Griffiths was an honest, hard working, modest and generous guy with an eye for quality and esthetics. No doubt he's also loyal, obedient, brave, thrifty, clean and reverent. I didn't know until I read Mac OS X Hints, the book, that he was a literary genius. Clearly, the Pogue vibes energized Rob's creativity. The writing is entertaining while the hints are novel and valuable. Ignoring the author's suggestion I read the book from cover to cover. It's really nice to read paragraph after paragraph of geek gook and enjoy the text. I frequently got the "what's so hilarious now?" look from wife as I giggled and laughed out loud. I also found myself talking to the book -- "cool, I knew that", "hmm... interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind", "wow!", "OMG! that's how you do that!", etc. The entire range of nerd emotions.

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Tips and Suggestions

• Include the book's title, author(s), publisher, and price.

• Provide the catalog page URL for your book from our book list
  https://oreilly.com/store/

• Include information from the catalog page for each book such as a link to the sample chapter or author articles.

• Create a rating system with your members. Be creative. For example, the Alaskan Apple Users Group uses Moose to rate their reviews. Five Moose means "Terrific."

• Be honest.

• The length is up to you. Reviews can be short and sweet or long and detailed. Do what works best for you.

• If you like something in a book, say what it is and why you like it. If you don't like something in the book, say what it is and say why you don't like it. Be as specific as you can--this information is important to other readers.

• If something was omitted in the book say what it is and why it is important.

• End the review with an overall summary.

• In your UG Newsletter or website, mention the O'Reilly User Group discount. Forgot the discount code? Email me, and I'll remind you. ( )

• If your members are having trouble writing a review, creating a set of questions that need to be answered might help them get started.

• Do what works best for your group.

• If you find an error you would like to submit, please go the "Errata" section on the book page from our online catalog.

• Have Fun!

Resources

• Slashdot book review guidelines

• "Reading a Nonfiction Book to Review it" from the University of Wisconsin-Madison