Comments on: vSphere Quick Start Guide – PowerCLI and PDF

By: Greg Fox

Greg Fox — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:07:33 +0000

Thanks again for the full feeds Al!

Much easier to stay up with everyone’s content this way.

Good luck in the vLaunchpad poll …

Greg

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By: xitim

xitim — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:54:24 +0000

@Virtu-Al, That’s nice from you but keep in mind that there is no big deal behind all this. My only concern what to be able to quick find through the portable version what you can’t do with paper…

@Duncan, I didn’t know about the additionnal fee. Of course this changes the whole perspective, and I get the picture. Thank you for explaining this to me.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:59:14 +0000

@XiTim

I understand you want the PDF for free but to be honest this is impossible. The complete book has been published/written in a DIY fashion which is the reason we could price it as low as it currently is. Even for a PDF there is a certain fee we need to pay to lulu.

Besides that, if you buy any other vSphere book out there right now for $ 20+ do you get the PDF/Kindle version for free?

Sorry if I’m being to straight forward, but we will not distribute the PDF for free to those who already bought the paper version.

By: Greg Fox

Greg Fox — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:09:39 +0000

Happy days all round !

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:03:04 +0000

@Greg Fox, @Xitim I will definately have a word with the other authors and see if there is anything we can do, on the feed side of things I think I may have just found a deep dark hidden tick box which said show summary, hopefully they will be full feeds from now on !

Thanks for the comments guys,

By: xitim

xitim — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:44:32 +0000

@Greg Fox, That IS a nice compromise !

By: Greg Fox

Greg Fox — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:37:03 +0000

@xitim, so maybe chalk this one up as a “self publishing” experience builder for the guys, and let’s see if they provide a better option for their next reference guide.

By: xitim

xitim — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:31:44 +0000

@Greg Fox, These guys could write many other references that I’ll buy for sure as they’ve got tons of experience. Nevertheless I’m simply not ready to buy twice the same product. Got the difference ?