special prize, all my money to the winner!

[Shawn Blc]

I just ordered it on Packt.  Used a coupon code too ;)



On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Petrides, M.D. Marian <
mpetrides at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Colin
>
> I did a preorder and it appeared to go through at first but I then I got
> an email saying "We are sorry to inform you that your pre-order for the
> eBook of LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide” was automatically
> cancelled as the pre-order process did not go through correctly. Please
> note that you were not charged for this order."
>
> I'm off to try buying it directly from them now. This time I'll try paying
> with PayPal... I've had problems ordering LC itself with WorldPay and my
> Visa Card.  Update: This time the order went through and I just downloaded
> the book.
>
> The way I get PDF books onto my iPad is to email them to myself, then
> click and hold on the PDF until I get an "Open With...." query.  In my
> case, I like to Open With iBooks. This technique worked just fine with your
> book.
>
> In any event, I claim your special prize (unless someone else ordered
> before me--unlikely.  Now the fun begins!  Congratulations on publication
> of your book, Colin.
>
> Marian
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > I decided to give out a special prize, of all of my money, to the first
> person to buy my book (which is now available). But, don't get too excited,
> aside from it not being that much money, I went ahead and artificially
> boosted sales by buying the book for myself!
> >
> > So, I'll write a check to me.
> >
> > It isn't yet in the Kindle or iBooks stores, so I bought it with the 20%
> discount from Packt, and downloaded the Epub and PDF formats. I'm trying
> different techniques to get it onto my iPad. I tried to drag the Epub
> version into the documents for Kindle in iTunes. That didn't seem to show
> up, so I did the same for the Stanza app. That worked!
> >
> > Going to show my colleagues now…
> >
>
>
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