Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

Amazon adds BookScan data - I can see where the last purchases were made :-)

Amazon.com recently started making book sales data from Nielsen BookScan available through their "Author Central" portal - and it yields some interesting data for those of us writing books. Now, it's not complete data as BookScan only covers about 75% of the online and offline booksellers, and it does NOT include ebooks, Kindle editions, etc. Still, it can provide some fun facts like the fact that the last purchases of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks were in New York, Chicago and L.A.:

What's cool for me as an author is that it also aggregates and displays data across all my books. Now... my books are not exactly NY Times Bestsellers (what? you mean the world isn't racing to learn about UC security? :-) so the data isn't as exciting as it would be for those with more mainstream books... but it's very cool to see. Thanks to Amazon for making this data available (for free) to all of us who write books!

Amazon Kindle version now available for "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks"

I'm very pleased to report that an Amazon Kindle version of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks is now available from the Kindle store.

I've had a good number of people ask me about a Kindle version... and it obviously makes a good degree of sense given that it's a technical book for a technical audience, many of whom may have e-readers.

I don't own a Kindle, but I do have both an iPad and an iPhone - and the Kindle reader is available for free for both of those - so I am looking forward myself to seeing my book on my iPad as an "e-book".

What about you all? Do you want to buy the book in paper/treeware form? Or do you want an ebook version?

Full disclosure for the FTC: The links to Amazon.com include my affiliate ID. If you buy the book after following the links, I may be paid a tiny bit of money.

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Apparently, at least 7 Singaporeans are reading 7 Deadliest UC Attacks

As I've written previously, Google Alerts can be the source of amusing information for authors.  Today's curiosity was a link to the National Library Board of the Singapore Government where Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks is apparently available for readers.  In fact, when I clicked on the link and then clicked on the book title, I got a page showing which libraries in Singapore have a copy and which copies are checked out:

Admittedly, this is kind of cool to see!  What is of course even more appropriate is that if you count up the number of copies "On Loan", the count is....  7! :-)

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Seven Deadliest UC Attacks book is "launched"... kinda, sorta...

Silly me! I naively thought that maybe this time around the "launch" of the book could actually be nailed down to "a day".

You see, back in the 1990's and early 2000's when I wrote my other four books, it was a different era. Amazon.com wasn't quite the enormous industry player that it is today. You sent your text and edits into the publisher and then sometime a book showed up at your house... and sometime after that it appeared in local book stores. Sometime... whenever...

Fast forward 8 years and I thought it might be different now. I thought the launch date could be nailed down. I watched friends like Chris Brogan, Mitch Joel and Steve Garfield all focus on "launches" of their books on specific days... and figured it would be similar for mine.

Nope.

Now, granted, all of their books are targeted at the larger marketing/communications audience... and maybe they planned for a date after availability... and given everything else on my plate, I didn't really spend that much time working on a launch plan. I just sort of thought it might work out easier.

The editors, publicity folks and others at Syngress were all great. They told me...

Yea! Received my advance copies of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

Only a few hours after writing my post today saying that I still didn't have a copy of the book, a UPS truck pulled up outside my house and dropped off a box...

Having submitted the chapters back in November, December and early January ... and then worked on proofs of the pages in February and early March... it's great to finally hold the final version in my hands.

The book is now sort of available... Syngress is apparently selling the book from their site and they tell me the book should be available at Amazon any day now...

Acknowledgements section of Seven Deadliest UC Attacks now online

As there were many people who helped out in some way with the creation of this book, I want to publicly acknowledge many of those folks by posting the Acknowledgements section that appears in the book.

MANY thanks to everyone who helped. It's a better book because of all you did!