No. The free offer for Carla Schroder’s Linux Cookbook: Essential Skills for Linux Users and System & Network Administrators, second edition, expired on May 16, 2024. TradePub now says it can no longer fulfill requests for that offer. The $56.99 figure is a displayed price for an eText listing at VitalSource, not a guaranteed current price from other sellers.
What happened to the free offer?
BetaNews announced the limited-time offer on May 2, 2024, and gave May 16, 2024, as its expiration date. TradePub’s offer page now reports that it is no longer able to fulfill requests. The former promotion therefore cannot be claimed through that offer.
Which book and edition did the headline mean?
It referred to Carla Schroder’s Linux Cookbook: Essential Skills for Linux Users and System & Network Administrators, second edition, published by O’Reilly Media. Check the format and ISBN when looking for a copy:
| Format | ISBN |
|---|---|
| 9781492087168 | |
| eText | 9781492087113 |
What does “worth $56.99” mean?
VitalSource displays $56.99 for its eText listing, as accessed in 2026. That is a listing price for that format at that seller; it does not establish a current price at Amazon, O’Reilly, or other retailers. BetaNews also used $56.99 as the advertised value of the 2024 promotion, but that historical promotional figure does not make the offer available now.
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How to check before buying
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Search the full title and author, then confirm that the result is the second edition.
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Match the format to the ISBN: 9781492087168 for print or 9781492087113 for eText.
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Check the seller’s current price, availability, and format directly before paying; the historical free offer and its advertised value do not establish today’s terms elsewhere.
What the book covers
The promotion described the book as a practical guide for new-to-intermediate Linux users working with desktop, embedded, server, cloud, or virtual systems. Its listed subjects included systemd, firewalls with firewalld, secure networking, recovery of systems that will not boot, users and groups, hardware monitoring, GRUB, time synchronization, Raspberry Pi routing and firewall use, filesystems, and partitioning. This is the promotion’s description of the book, not an independent assessment of its coverage.
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