Packt Books Making Their Way to the Amazon Kindle

by Richard Seroter
Posted on June 27, 2011

Just a quick FYI that my last book, Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform, is now available on the Amazon Kindle. Previously, you could pull the eBook copy over to the device, but that wasn’t ideal. Hopefully my newest book, Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration will be Kindle-ready shortly after it launches in the coming weeks.

While I’ve got a Kindle and use it regularly, I’ll admit that I don’t read technical books on it much. What about you all? Do you read electronic copies of technical books or do you prefer the “dead trees” version?

Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management, Richard leads an organization of Google Cloud developer advocates, engineers, platform builders, and outbound product managers that help customers find success in their cloud journey. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter. View all posts by Richard Seroter

4 thoughts

Chris Grulke says:

June 27, 2011 at 8:54 am

I’ve tried a technical book on the Kindle, and it’s OK, but I find that the code sections and diagrams don’t read very well…

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Colin Meade says:

June 28, 2011 at 8:41 am

I’ve found myself reading them on my iPhone from time-to-time; usually when my laptop has died and I’m stuck in an airport for a few hours.

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1. Richard Seroter says:
  
  June 28, 2011 at 8:47 am
  
  That’s a good scenario for reading them. I have the same worry as Chris in that the visualizations and code lose their impact.
  
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merry says:

June 30, 2011 at 12:37 pm

“dead tree” version can share with others. ebooks i bought is stuck in my itune account. When setup a company library, “dead tree” is still the preferred choice.

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