Dear User Group members,

As promised, our new releases (eighteen this month) are just rolling off the press at the speed of, well, a leopard chasing down its prey. You see where I'm heading here...speaking of leopards, two of our Leopard books are now available and you can get a sneak peak at one of them! Also available this month are two iLife 08 books.

Be sure to enter our $1000 Question Contest for your chance to win a digital photography package. Check for details in the Special Announcements section below.

Jackie Hill
usergroups@peachpit.com
800.283.9444 x129

Special Announcements

$1000 QUESTION CONTEST
We asked our author experts, Scott Kelby, Bert Monroy, Matt Kloskowski, Chris Orwig, and Rich Harrington, what equipment and software they would recommend to budding digital photographers if they had a $1,000 budget to get started. Go to http://www.peachpit.com/1000dollarquestion and find out what they had to say. Then vote for your favorite digital photography package and you'll be automatically entered for a chance to win the package that you vote for! We'll choose one winner out of all entries. Contest ends December 31, 2007.

PEACHPIT'S GOT LEOPARD COVERED
On the heels of Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, came the release of a two Leopard books by two of our most well known authors - Maria Langer's, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide and Robin Williams', Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
 
Visit our Leopard page where you can check out a sample chapter from Maria Langer's book, see what other books are coming down the pipe, read the Leopard articles, and take advantage of the special 35% discount offer!


Upcoming Conferences

VOICES THAT MATTER: GOOGLE WEB TOOLKIT
December 3-6, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Presented by Addison-Wesley Professional and Prentice Hall Professional
http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/gwt2007/index.html

MONTHLY BOOK SELECTION

To select your free monthly book please visit:
http://www.peachpit.com/user_groups/book.asp

Select the operating state for your group and click Submit. (NOTE: International groups should select OTHER as their operating state. It's found in the O section as opposed to at the end of the list). Pick your group name from the pull-down menu and fill in ALL the required fields that follow. User groups outside of the U.S. MUST put their phone number in the Address 2 field.

In the feedback field, please paste in the ISBN and TITLE NAME of the book you selected from the choices above. Even if you've selected a book that is not listed above, you may still use this form. But you must complete all required fields and include the TITLE NAME and ISBN in the feedback field.

Once all fields are complete, click Submit.

*INCOMPLETE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED****PLEASE NOTE!***

If you experience any problems with the Feedback field you can submit your monthly book selection directly to usergroups@peachpit.com. We are working on correcting the problem.

Thanks for your patience.

FOR GROUPS NEW TO OUR USER GROUP PROGRAM

USER GROUP COUPON CODE
We provide your group members with a 30% discount off the list price of any of our books. At checkout, right before they put their credit card number in, they must enter the user group coupon code UE-23AA-PEUF (case-sensitive). This coupon code is an exclusive offer that may not be used in conjunction with any other coupon codes.

BULK ORDERS

We have transitioned Peachpit's User Group bulk sales management to our Corporate Sales department. All bulk order requests should be directed to our Corporate Sales professionals. Groups will not be restricted to ordering a certain number of titles, but rate is set on a sliding scale based on quantity ordered.

Please email any inquiries to corpsales@pearsontechgroup.com and include your group name, city, and state. A representative for your region of the country will contact you to set up your account, obtain your order, and answer questions on discounts.

BOOKS FOR REVIEW

Requests for books to review should be sent to usergroups@peachpit.com and come from the group leader only.

Your email should list the following information IN THE FORMAT THAT FOLLOWS:

GROUP NAME/YOUR NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE (required for all international groups)
QUANTITY
ISBN AND TITLE NAME

Members have 90 days to complete a review, post it on the group's Web site, or in your UG newsletter (if applicable), and send it to usergroups@peachpit.com.

We also ask that reviewers try to post their reviews to Web sites such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Borders. We value the fact that you can share your opinions in other public forums!

 

 

 

 

NEW RELEASES

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
By Robin Williams 0321502639
$29.99

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Maria Langer 0321496000
$24.99

Apple Pro Training Series: Logic 8 Pro and Logic Express 8
By David Nahmani 0321502922
$44.99

Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 8: Beyond the Basics
By David Dvorin 0321502884
$54.99

Illustrator CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas 0321510453
$29.99

Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3
By Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe 0321518675
$44.99

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
By Scott Kelby 0321501926
$49.99

Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Studio Techniques
By Mark Christiansen 0321499786
$59.99

Apple Pro Training Series: Color
By David Gross 0321509110
$54.99

Apple Pro Training Series: DVD Studio Pro 4, Second Edition
By Martin Sitter and Adrian Ramseier with Jem Schofield 0321501896
$54.99

Pinnacle Studio 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Jan Ozer 0321526325
$29.99

Premiere Pro CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
By Antony Bolante 032152635X
$39.99

Apple Training Series: iLife 08
By Michael E. Cohen and Jeff Bollow with Richard Harrington 0321502671
$39.99

iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Jeff Carlson 032150187X
$24.99

Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads
By Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus 0321489829
$39.99

The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Third Edition
By Chris Breen
0321524624
$9.99
The iPod Book: Doing Cool Stuff with the iPod and the iTunes Store,
Fourth Edition

By Scott Kelby
0321524667
$19.99
The Xbox 360 Pocket Guide
By Bart Farkas
0321544951
$9.99