Quick news: Microsoft Press is now distributed by Pearson
As many of you saw in the post from a couple of weeks ago, Pearson is now the worldwide distributor of Microsoft Press books. As always, you can purchase our books from any retailer, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
What’s new is that you can also purchase them directly from InformIT.com, Pearson’s site.
Later this month we’ll be unveiling our new Microsoft Press Store online. Stay tuned. I’ll also include an FAQ then to communicate the changes and answer some of the concerns that many of you expressed in your comments a couple of weeks ago. We appreciate your feedback.
Comments
Anonymous
April 01, 2014
I haven't purchased anything yet, but plan to do so soon. First impressions: negative. 1-According to each ebook page, the ebooks are now watermarked. Although it may not be a big deal (and watermarkm is always better than DRM), I had hopes you guys kept it as it was in O'Reilly. Here's hoping that's just some standard text put by Pearson and that the book are not watermarked. 2-Also, it seems like most old books have not been included... maybe you guys just focused on new stuff first, but it would be nice to see the same catalogue (or bigger) than you had in O'Reilly. 3-Less ebook formats: no more APK or Daisy, though to be honest I never used them. As long as you guys keep PDF, EPUB and MOBI for all books, I'll be happy.Anonymous
April 01, 2014
I must say I really really dislike that site, a lot... sorry to see you left O'Reilly as that site was usable, unlike the temp new one. -1vote here to this... As a note if you search for Microsoft press via front page of that site, you do get a semi sorta ok list, but if you click the author shown as Microsoft press, its a dead link to new store site you are working on... sigh, its like the mid 90's geocity site came back from the grave. :( ill give it time but man, ya should have stayed on O'Reilly until your site was fully live as that site only detracts me wanting to buy a book. Thanks and sorry for this rant.Anonymous
April 01, 2014
What is the link for Pearson webshop???Anonymous
April 01, 2014
www.informit.com is the siteAnonymous
April 01, 2014
I've just noticed that a book ("Windows Phone 8 Development Internals") I'd like to buy in printed format is available only as an e-book: what about the printed book (it was available at O'Reilly's)?Anonymous
April 01, 2014
What a Train wreck. Riddle me this: Search for "Microsoft press" in Products -- Filter by type eBooks > Adobe DRM PDFs - and you get: Novell Linux Desktop 9 User's Handbook, Adobe Reader By Joe Habraken Published Nov 7, 2005 by Novell Press Did you get the same team (at CSI) that did the Obamacare Web site or what? Congrats folks of your plan to move to a Craiglist Web site for your products.Anonymous
April 01, 2014
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April 02, 2014
@janec - the 70-416 was cancelled.Anonymous
April 02, 2014
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April 02, 2014
@KimSpilker OK, Kim. Thank you!Anonymous
April 03, 2014
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April 03, 2014
On the bright side: I'm glad you guys finally released Windows via C/C++ fifth edition as ebook :) Hope you also bring back old ebooks, both the ones that were available in O'Reilly as well as other older ebooks.Anonymous
April 03, 2014
I'm glad about "Windows via C/C++" too! I finally got a copy. It looks like the everyday ebook prices on Informit are maybe lower than they were on O'Reilly. But every now and then, O'Reilly would have some very nice sales. They seem to happen less often (and not as deep discount) on Informit. I don't really care about the watermarks - as long as there's no Adobe Digital Editions DRM.Anonymous
April 07, 2014
That whole breakup thing between MS and O'R is such a major bungle, ... to stay polite. 70-488, 70-416, 70-489 Exam Refs ... lost in the wild, in battle ... Will they ever get published, one day ?Anonymous
April 08, 2014
Hi, Tama. We don't publish Exam Refs for each and every exam. The Exam Refs currently in progress are 70-411, 70-413, 70-414, 70-417, 70-480, 70-481, and 70-688. The Exam Refs published in the last few months are 70-410, 70-412, 70-482, 70-483, 70-484, 70-485, 70-486, 70-487, and 70-687.Anonymous
April 18, 2014
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April 22, 2014
@Ann W - thanks for the comments from the author's perspective. Here's a link to buy all ebook formats for Kalen's SQL Server 2012 Internals book - www.informit.com/.../microsoft-sql-server-2012-internals-9780735658561Anonymous
April 23, 2014
When can we expect to see recently published items return to the amazon kindle library?Anonymous
April 24, 2014
Daniel, we are working on this! Soon, we hope.