Some highlights:

• Get Bold by IBM’s Sandy Carter sold like hotcakes.  Everyone is who isn’t focused on building a social business should be.
• We began taking orders for the upcoming new XPages Portable Command Guide.  It’s out in a month.
• New Sametime Admin book sold out.  Great author team!
• Folks enjoyed meeting Sir Tim Berners-Lee – author of Weaving the Web

‘Here’s the list – with links!!!  (you’re welcome!)

In July I wrote about our new IBM Press Book – DITA Best Practices and shared a coupon code for 35% off the retail price.

I am thrilled that we have now enhanced the ebook with video tutorials.  Thanks to the proliferation and market place acceptance of digital content – it’s great to be able to add value to the written word.

With this new ebook you can watch video demonstrations to see how to implement some of the advanced features of DITA discussed in this book. With these videos you’ll learn to code short descriptions, links, conditional processing, and content references.  In addition, you will find instructions in the last few pages of your eBook that direct you to the download site for the set of DITA sample files used in examples throughout the book.

How great is that?

Learn more here and order

Want the hard copy?  Here you go

Want to take a test drive?  Free chapter.

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As an FYI – Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the mastermind behind the Internet!  YEP!  TimBL invented the World Wide Wide.  Amazing chance to get his “John Hancock” and read his book the old-fashioned way – hard copy.

Monday, January 16^th 10:00am-11:00am

IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration 

Keith Brooks, Mark Harper

Monday, January 16^th 6:00pm-7:00pm

Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business 

Sandy Carter

Tuesday, January 17^th   2:30pm-3:30pm

Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language

Martin Donnelly, Tony McGuckin

****First 200 attendees in line at the Mastering XPages signing will get a free sample chapter from soon to be released XPages Programmable Command Guide****

XPages Portable Command Guide: A Compact Resource to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language

Martin Donnelly, Tony McGuckin, Dan O’Connor

Wednesday January 18 9:15am-10:00am

IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide

Gabriella Davis, Marie L. Scott, Thomas Duff

Wednesday January 18 10:30m-11:00am

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee

A second edition of a book can be an incredible amount of work.  Our recently published IBM Press book,  An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition, is no exception.  In fact it took a village of authors -  Barbara Klein, Richard Alan Long, Kenneth Ray Blackman, Diane Lynne Goff, Stephen Paul Nathan, Moira McFadden Lanyi, Margaret M. Wilson, John Butterweck, Sandra L. Sherrill – to update the book.  At over 550 pages – it’s a big effort, packed with great content.

Given the move to ebooks – this book was going to be pure “e” all the way.  So if you want it on your e-reader or PDF form – you are all set.  The publisher has decided to also deliver this book in hardcopy – but that’s a few months away.

Version 12?  Version 11?  Version 10?  it’s all there for you.

More than a complete tutorial, this book provides up-to-date examples, cases, problems, solutions, and a complete glossary of IMS terminology. Prerequisite reading for the current IBM IMS Mastery Certificate Program, it reflects major recent enhancements such as dynamic information generation; new access, interoperability and development tools; improved SOA support, and much more. Whether you’re a DBA, database developer, or system programmer, it brings together all the knowledge you’ll need to succeed with IMS in today’s mission-critical environments

If you want to go directly to the publisher – here’s a 35% off coupon.  Please use this at the last step in check out and use CAPS.  Code: IMS6871

Go here to learn more and order.

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IBM Press best sellers are highlighted and linked for purchase.

Here’s the top 25

The bookstore will be hopping this year with authors such as Michael Lewis and IBM’s Social Business Expert Sandy Carter.  Plus we are releasing our first IBM Press book on Cognos.  (very excited).  Here is the cheat sheet.  Enjoy the conference.

About the book:

The field’s leading expert demonstrates how to use decision management systems to drive unprecedented levels of business value. James Taylor shows how to integrate operational and analytic technologies to create systems that are more agile, more analytic, and more adaptive. Through actual case studies, you’ll learn how to combine technologies such as predictive analytics, optimization, and business rules – improving customer service, reducing fraud, managing risk, increasing agility, and driving growth.

Order now at 35% off using coupon code TAYLOR4389 at checkout, plus free ground shipping within the U.S.

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IBM Press has publsihed books on social networking for years.  Here’s a quick recap:

The Social Factor by Maria Azua

Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise by Joey Bernal

Lotus Connections by Tim Speed

Audience, Relevance and Search by James Mathewson, Frank Donatone

And publishing this week, Get Bold by Sandy Carter

Standing ovation for all these IBMers who get it and work tirelessly to help companies become a social business.

For IBM’s IOD 2011 conference, we will  have a much anticipated book available – IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio – Practical Examples.  This is our first IBM Press book that covers Cognos and are thrilled to add it to the portfolio.  The authors are instructors – so they are in the trenches everyday teaching customers how use the product.  If you are at IOD – be sure to meet Filip and Roger at their book signing. 

About the Book

This book provides advanced know how. Using practical examples based on years of teaching experiences as IBM Cognos instructors, the authors provide you with examples of typical advanced reporting designs and complex queries in reports. The reporting solutions in this book can be directly used in a variety of real-world scenarios to provide answers to your business problems today. The complexity of the queries and the application of design principles go well beyond basic course content or introductory books. IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio: Practical Examples will help you find the answers to specific questions based on your data and your business model. It will use a combination tutorial and cookbook approach to show real-world IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio solutions. If you are still using IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio, many of the examples have been tested against this platform as well. The final chapter has been dedicated to showing those features that are unique to the latest version of this powerful reporting solution.

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