FAQ

As an online book store, ICT-Books.com provides shopping through all Sogeti and Capgemini publications, selecting the ones you want and paying the way that best suits you.

Login, User account

When ordering for the first time you have the option to create an account. You will need to provide some data, like your name, password, (shipping) address & email address. Items marked with an asterisk are obligatory.
Having an account might of use for returning visitors.

The menu bar shows the number of products selected and your username if you are logged in. After the selection and payment transaction is completed, the publications will be sent to the selected shipping address.

Vouchers

Vouchers are (digital or physical) coupons with a personal coupon code that gives access to a specific publication at reduced cost or even free of charge.

Add the specific publication connected to your coupon code to your shopping cart. During checkout you can apply your unique voucher code and the price reduction will be calculated.

Printed publications

When the selected publication is a printed book or report, it will be sent to the selected shipping address after completion of the payment transaction.

Ebooks

After you have completed your eBook purchase, you will receive a link to download a personalized version. Personalization means that an ex-libris of your email address and name will be incorporated in the eBook.

Attention

Some ePubs are fairly large, so it may take some time to download them.

Ordering

We use Omnikassa to process your order.

You can pay with Mastercard, Visa, Maestro, PayPal or iDEAL. For you as a customer, Omnikassa is 100% secure: Omnikassa’s secure servers never give away access to your credit card or bank information. Contact us with any questions.

Shipping

Shipping costs depend on the weight of your order. We use three shipping zones, the Netherlands, Europe and Worldwide.

We try to ship our books at the best possible prices.

For currently charged costs of shipping and handling, see below.

Within the Netherlands	€ 7,50
Within Europe	€ 22,50
Worldwide	€ 35,00

Sogeti experts and its trend lab VINT have written a number of books over the last couple of years. These publications are a true asset for knowledge sharing and strengthening the Sogeti brand. ICT Books is meant to facilitate access to these. It serves as an archive of recent publications on the topics of Testing, Inspiration/Trends, Architecture, Technology and Cloud. The publications are available as a download (PDF and/or eBook) and/or a printed book.

Special price for clients and partners

Although many publications are available as a free download, some are not available free of charge. However, because Sogeti values its relationship with you, we offer certain publications at a special price.

If you want to order a Sogeti publication and want to find out if it is available to you at a discount, please ask your local Sogeti contact.

Sogeti experts and its trend lab VINT have written a large number of books over the last couple of years. These publications are a true asset for knowledge sharing. ICT Books is meant to facilitate access to this. It serves as an archive of recent publications on the topics of Testing, Inspiration/Trends, Architecture, Technology and Cloud. The publications are available as a download (PDF and/or eBook) and/or a printed book.

Special price for employees

Although many publications are available as a free download, some are not available free of charge. Often Sogeti employees can obtain those publications at your local marketing & communications departement.

• Therefore, you are requested to contact your marketing & communications department if you want to order a printed book or report.
• Often you can get vouchers which offer a discount on the purchasing price of eBooks, sometimes to the extent that they become free of charge. If you want to buy an eBook, you can contact your marketing & communications department to apply for a voucher.

This format is supported by Adobe, Sony reader and other eBook readers. It can be rendered on many mobile devices including iPhones. If you do not have an ePub reader already installed on your system, you can download one here.

Features

• ePub is the most popular open book format.
• Displayed in a reflow-centric XHTML-based format.
• Can be viewed by Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), Sony readers, iPad, Calibre, FB Readers, Stanza and Aldiko.
• Presents the eBook in a natural page format with page-turn functionality.
• Supports bookmarking functionality.
• Has library management features.

Almost the opposite, really. Proper ePub formatting lets your words reflow at a readable size to fit any device, much like words on a web page reflow when you resize the window. Readers can change fonts, sizes, even colors, to suit their personal preferences. Because an ePub format book is flexible, your book may be 200 pages on a big device, 600 pages on a small one. But it’s always very legible. PDFs were designed to look exactly the same on every computer screen: the fonts, size, and layout are all locked in place, as if they were a photograph. That’s great for computers. But on small e-reader devices, PDF documents shrink to unreadable proportions.

No. Although DRM is meant to help protect your eBook from being shared, it causes problems with some eBook devices. Because it’s easy to get hacked, it doesn’t protect much anyway. Online distributors like Amazon and Lulu add eBook copy protection for you if you want it, so we leave that up to you when we design your ePub book. People share digital books about as often as they share real books—a little, not a lot.
However, the ePub files contain visible personalisation and multiple invisible watermarks in all data files, without sacrificing compatibility.

The ISBN is an independent identification number associated with a book. An eBook does not use the same ISBN as the paper edition.

You can print PDFs and notes you’ve entered from iBooks, but the option to print ePub books is not available. You can also email PDFs and notes you have written from iBooks.

You can change the font displayed onscreen. Tap the Fonts button to display the Fonts panel, then tap Fonts. This displays a list of available fonts; tap the one you want to use.