Today on CyberMonday you can buy “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16

and start shopping. All you do is enter “CYBER16” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 05:00 US Pacific Time. Do note that this sale is for ebooks and not for the print versions of the books or for print/ebook bundles.

You can also go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly and add it to your cart using that page.

Although the book was written back in 2010, it is sadly still VERY relevant to the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems deployed today. I would have loved it if vendors would have made systems so much more secure that this book could be forgotten about… but the security concerns have only increased in the time since the publication. Even six years later it still offers relevant advice and suggestions about how to make sure your IP communication systems are as secure as possible.

I am a big fan of buying ebooks directly from O’Reilly because doing so gets you:

• DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
• Free lifetime access
• Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
• Free updates
• Sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and other similar services

… and more!

FYI, I recorded a short podcast episode about this sale:

P.S. My “Migrating Applications to IPv6” book is also on sale as an ebook at O’Reilly’s site… if you are interested in how to make sure your applications can work over IPv6, please do check that book out, too.

Want to lean more about how to increase the security of your unified communications (UC) / voice-over-IP (VoIP) system? Today you have a great opportunity to buy “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/Cyber-Monday

and start shopping! Or you can go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly at:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597495479.do

As I’ve mentioned in the past, buying direct from O’Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:

• DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
• Free lifetime access
• Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
• Free updates
• Sync with Dropbox and other similar services

… and more!  All you do is enter “CYBERDY” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 05:00 US Pacific Time.

P.S. While you are there at O’Reilly, you can also purchase my “Migrating Applications To IPv6” ebook and gain insight into what you may need to do to migrate your UC applications over to IPv6 as the Internet moves increasingly to being based on IPv6.

If you have read “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” and found the book helpful, could you please take a moment to rate and/or review the book on O’Reilly’s website?  Even if you just enter the number of stars and say something very basic it would be helpful.  All you need to do is go to this page:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597495479.do

and click on the “Write Review” link.

In preparation for today’s Cyber Monday sale, I looked at the page and noticed that ever since O’Reilly started selling the book as an ebook there have not been any reviews there.  There are a few reviews on Goodreads and several very nice reviews over on Amazon.com, but none yet on O’Reilly’s site.

These kind of ratings and reviews do help people decide whether to purchase a book – and they are helpful to me as an author, too, to understand what people did (or did not) find useful and helpful.

Thank you!

Would you like to purchase the ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" for 50% off? or maybe even 60% off? As I mentioned before, the folks at O'Reilly are now selling the ebook of 7 Deadliest UC Attacks and they have a promotion going on today:

Save 50% on all ebooks and videos at oreilly.com - and save 60% on all orders over $100.

Here's a great chance to help learn more about how to secure Unified Communications / VoIP systems – or to buy this book for someone you think would like to learn more on the subject.

The awesome aspects about ordering ebooks directly from O'Reilly include:

• DRM-free – you can read the ebook on as many different devices as you want… and you don't have to mess around with silly licensing systems.
• Multiple formats – you can download the book in ePub, Kindle, PDF.
• Free lifetime access – you don't have a limit on when you can download the book and you can always go back in and get it.
• Free updates – whenever there are updates to a book you get a notification and can easily download the update.

All around it's just a great system for working with ebooks… and yes, I'm an author for them so you might expect me to say this, but I'm also a consumer who purchases ebooks and I like their system better than any of the other ones out there that I've tried.

I'll note on the "Free updates" part – I don't yet have any current plans to update "Seven Deadliest UC Attacks"  (unlike my "Migrating Applications to IPv6" book that will see an update in 2014) but if I do work on an update at some future point, ebook purchasers through O'Reilly would be the ones to easily get an update (versus print or ebook through other systems).  And you will get updates for any other ebooks you purchase.

It's a great deal – and I'd encourage you to stock up on ebooks from O'Reilly's site today!

P.S. To comply with full disclosure requirements: the links in this post are affiliate links – I will make a tiny amount of money if you purchase any ebooks after following these links… but that's not why I'm writing this post.

I was extremely pleased to recently learn that the ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" is now available DRM-free through a deal between Syngress/Elsvier and O'Reilly. As I noted in a recent podcast about DRM-free books, this allows you as the reader much more flexibility and freedom in being able to read the ebook on the platform and device of your choosing.

You can now purchase 7 Deadliest UC Attacks in either Epub of PDF formats directly from O'Reilly.  

The great part about ordering DRM-free ebooks from O'Reilly is that you can easily get back to your ebooks and download them in multiple formats.  They also alert you to updates if there are any.

Kudos to the folks at Elsevier and Syngress for making all of these ebooks available DRM-free!

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!

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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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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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…

… the book should be available in their warehouses on April 28th and, yes indeed, you could order if directly from Syngress on that date… if you wanted to pay the $24.95 list price. But what I found in myself was this:

I wanted to know the date it was live on Amazon.com!

That, to me, seemed to be “the launch date”. And sadly… no one could tell me that. “It all depends upon when it gets to Amazon’s warehouses” … and … “it’s completely out of our control.”

Interesting.

When “the day” came, naturally I went to Amazon to see if it was available and met with:

Even though the site did say the 28th:

Checking back on Amazon on April 29th showed me that it was available, but with a 1-4 week availability! Which brought about amusing screens like this one (given that the date was April 29th):

And then today it is now showing as “Temporarily out of stock“:

Which I guess is a good thing in that initial demand must have been higher than their supply… maybe? (or is that the books didn’t actually get into the warehouse in the first place?)

So in any event… the book is kind of launched… you can’t really buy it from Amazon.com… you can buy it direct from Syngress if you want to spend $8 more… and in theory you should be able to get it in your local bookstore sometime soon…

All in all a bit of strange experience. But it’s out there… which is cool!

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