I recently received the following email and agreed to review it…for full disclosure purposes, here are the terms in the email and my response:

My name is Saalim and I work for Packt, a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books. You can read more about us at www.PacktPub.com

I would like to inform you that we have a book on Moodle, titled “Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development” that teaches to easily construct richly textured web based courses. You can read more about this book here: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-moodle-1-9-course-development/book

I’m contacting you because I’m aware that these topics are one that you have particular interest and knowledge of, and thought that you’d be an excellent reviewer for the books. If you’d be interested in writing a review, I’d be delighted to send you a copy of the book. You can send me your shipping details and I will be happy to send over a copy.

I also have couple of extracted articles from the book that I am willing to give you. If you’d be interested in publishing these articles on your blog, I’d be more than happy to send you the HTML version on your confirmation.

Here is my response:

Howdy! Thanks for sharing this opportunity to review your book and to share the articles. Please note that I would be happy to re-publish the articles provided they are focused on Moodle, and not advertisements for a service. Of course, the book would be mentioned there.

The article Saalim is sending will appear as a future blog entry! I hope you find it of interest!

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