Mastering SolidWorks Book Offer for User Groups
My publisher agreed to send out 20 (!!) promotional copies of the Mastering SolidWorks book. I’m choosing to send them to user group leaders. So, if you are a SolidWorks user group leader, send me your group info and an address where I can send the book, and we’ll get you a free copy (my contact info is on the Contact page link above ==US and CANADA only please). Ideally this should be something you use for a contest, raffle, or door prize giveaway, not just keep for yourself, but, you know, I don’t have any way to enforce that. Maybe you can just keep it yourself and gloat to the rest of the group that you got a free book.
Remember that you can always just go and buy one. Nice book. Big and heavy. Has my email address in it, and a URL for 2 GB worth of downloads. Covers SolidWorks 2018.
Oh, and here’s a personal appeal: if you buy one, buy it from someone other than Amazon. Try Barnes and Noble. They might have one locally you can walk into the store and pick up off the shelf. If you go the the B&N site, there are 3 books with the same title, make sure to get the one that looks like the pic to the right. It’s not that I don’t like Amazon, they just give me the creeps.
Your videos for the book have no audio? Really? Sorry Matt,that’s so 1995. Excellent book!
OK, my bad, my computer having Audio problems, again sorry Matt
Ok, cool, sorry to hear about audio problems, but glad it’s not my fault!
Looks like the Kindle version is down to $56
I don’t want a big huge paper book on my desk, paperback binding, half of it screenshots. It will be obsolete in 3 years, and I already have too many computer books ready to be thrown away or donated to a museum.
For the e-book version I’m sorry to say but Barnes and Noble app is not compatible with any of my systems (Android tablet, Windows 10 PC). Don’t know what happened to them – are they going bankrupt or what ? How they cannot offer apps for the most popular systems ? I know for sure the tablet I have (Galaxy Tab S2 8.0) was sold rebranded as a Nook reader, so it’s not about hardware compatibility.
That leaves only the incredibly expensive Kindle version at 67$ (more than paper version, why Amazon, why ?!) or Kobo much more reasonably priced at 50$.
Yeah, I agree, all of these publication formats are a mess. Companies trying to lock you into a proprietary format is a tactic that eventually just backfires on you.