Shipping books to Canadian addresses has always been challenging for us. Even though our US fulfillment center is fewer than 40 miles from the Canadian border, the Canadian government randomly slaps huge duties on our shipments, and there's little we can do about it. Even these guys couldn't help:
Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks's Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design is this Wednesday's 50% off deal (remember, we New Yorkers define a day in GMT-5 terms). Follow @rosenfeldmedia and we'll tweet the code at least a few times to our followers during the day.
Lou is bouncing some ideas around on his blog about how Rosenfeld Media could engage better with non-English speakers. It may be a fool's errand, given that our books are published in English (though it's worth noting that Chinese and Korean translations are appearing!). Still, the comments are quite helpful and well worth reading if you're considering lightweight ways to globalize your own site.
Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte's Remote Research: Real Users, Real Time, Real Research is this Wednesday's 50% off deal (remember, we New Yorkers define a day in GMT-5 terms). Follow @rosenfeldmedia and we'll tweet the code at least a few times to our followers during the day.
This Wednesday our Twitter followers will receive a discount code for 50% off Todd Zaki Warfel's Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide. (Remember, we New Yorkers define a day in GMT-5 terms). Follow @rosenfeldmedia and we'll tweet the code at least a few times to our followers during the day.
Donna Spencer's Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories is this Wednesday's 50% off deal (remember, we New Yorkers define a day in GMT-5 terms). Follow @rosenfeldmedia and we'll tweet the code at least a few times to our followers during the day.
This Wednesday's special is, once again, 50% off Nathan Shedroff's Design Is the Problem: the Future of Design Must be Sustainable. Nathan's book is the definitive text for designers who wish to bake sustainability into their product design process.
Here's how the discount works: follow @rosenfeldmedia on Twitter and we'll tweet the discount code a few times during the day on Wednesday (defined at GMT-5).
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Our first Wednesday special, 50% off Mental Models, was a smashing success. We're following it up by offering the same deal on Luke Wroblewski's classic Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks. Here's how the deal works: follow @rosenfeldmedia on Twitter and we'll tweet the discount code a few times during the day on Wednesday (defined at GMT-5). That's it!
We're going to try a little experiment over the coming couple months: every Wednesday, we'll discount one of our titles by 50%. This offer will last one day only (and we define a Wednesday by GMT-5). To receive the discount code, you'll need to follow us on Twitter (@rosenfeldmedia).
First up: we'll discount Indi Young's Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by 50%. Yes, this Wednesday. Hope you'll take advantage of it (and help spread the word)!
We've set up a new Twitter list for our authors; 13 (at the moment) for the price of 1 follow! And of course, please also consider following @rosenfeldmedia for all sorts of updates, giveaways, and crazy discounts.