Announcing the Fourth Edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook

I realized that I have not been keeping people updated as to the progress of the 4th edition. You can see what changes are made at http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb. Suffice to say that we continue to push out updated books and have processed seven updates (one per week) since we published the 4th edition. The next update will appear on July 28.

I received a question on Facebook to ask whether we would publish a printed version. Well, we actually did do this a long time ago thanks to the sponsorship of Microsoft who paid for the production costs to edit, format, and print 500 copies of the first edition for Ignite 2015 in Chicago (May 2015). However, that was only the start of the journey and I believe that the book was around 550 pages at that time. Now it is 1,040 pages and growing (yes, I know, we could be called verbose - I prefer to say that Office 365 has changed a lot since 2015). Taking a massive book like that and printing it would take enormous effort and would be very expensive. We have looked at doing it with BookBaby.com and Amazon (they can't handle our size) and I guess a niggling desire still exists to see printed copies. However, that thought is soon stifled when we consider how many changes occur each week and the impossibility of getting those changes into a printed format.

So, we remain focused on an eBook - and I think the approach works because it seems like most readers use the book as a reference. It's certainly not something you'd read page-by-page from 1 to 1,040...

Thanks to all who support this work by buying copies. We really do appreciate the support and it does help us to push forward and generate those weekly updates.