When I put my first free eBook post on my blog a couple years ago, people thought I was crazy for wanting to give away one million total books. Sure enough, we did it. Then last year I issued the statement I wanted to give away one million more in ONE WEEK. People thought I had completely lost it then, but you showed them and we achieved our goal. Well, when I put up my “Largest Collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks Ever!” post here on my blog on Monday morning, I once again said “wouldn’t it be fun if we could surpass the 1,000,000 download mark within just one week again?” and sure enough, people questioned my ambition.
I am absolutely THRILLED to see the overwhelming response you have had to the FREE eBook giveaway again this year and I am happy to announce that not only did you hit the ONE MILLION free eBooks downloaded in a week, but you did it in just TWO DAYS! That’s right, you surpassed the ONE MILLION mark within 48 hours of my post first going live! (and what’s even more amazing is that looking at the current download trends, we’ll surpass TWO MILLION free eBooks given away so far this week during the day today!) So not only will you have achieved the original goal of ONE MILLION given away in a week, you’ll have doubled it to TWO MILLION, and there are still several days left in the week since the post first went live on Monday morning. So thank you to all of you for taking advantage of this offer and getting your free Microsoft eBooks! I hope you all find them of value and they are able to help you achieve your learning goals around these topics.
Now one question I get quite a bit is, “What are the most popular eBooks being downloaded?” For fun, I thought I’d pull the stats last night and see where we were. As of last night, these are the top 60 eBooks downloaded so far (in order of downloads). Now to be fair, this was as of last night, and there have been hundreds of thousands downloaded since then and the differences between #40 and #90 are really tight, so the rankings could easily have changed a little since then, but I think you get the idea. It’s also why you should be sure to check out all of the other eBooks available as well.
If you experience any difficulty downloading any of the books (like the PowerShell books as an example), check out my FAQ post about the books for some tips to try. I have confirmed that the links are correct and they are working for me currently).
If you want to see the full list of almost 300 FREE Microsoft eBooks, click here for my original post; otherwise, I give you the Top 60 eBooks being downloaded so far (as of last night):
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Secrets of PowerShell Remoting
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The Community Book of PowerShell Practices
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The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling
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Once again, THANK YOU for the incredible response and the wonderful comments you have been sending in about the books. Please enjoy the full collection here: “Largest Collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks Ever!” and be sure to share this with your peers, friends, and anyone else you think could benefit from these resources.
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Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Senior Sales Excellence Manager
Microsoft Corporation
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Awesome Collection of E-Books
Thanks for sharing 🙂
That's Awesome