The Notification Direct service emails your notifications to you when the books you are interested in are published. Please ensure that your email address is correctly entered in your registration details, or that you have entered your  e-mail address correctly when adding a notification.

How To Set Your Notifications

There are 2 ways of setting Notifications:

• Forthcoming titles or subject areas
• Enhanced notifications based on multiple search criteria

Forthcoming titles or subject areas

Adding a notification

Simply go to the details page for a forthcoming title, or to a list of titles for a subject. Click on the Notify Me button, and you will be asked to enter your email address. You will be given a Notification ID number; if you want to delete this notification later, you will need this.

Deleting a notification

Each time you are sent a notification you will find a URL at the end to allow you to remove the notification; if you enter this into your browser it will bring up a form with the details already included, you simply need to click on the Delete button to remove it. If you wish to delete a notification and you haven't got any results you can use the Notification Deletion Form; you will need to enter the Notification ID and the email address you used. If you have any problems please contact us.

Enhanced Notifications

(this is only available to registered users of Computer Manuals' website who have logged in. If you have not already done so, click here to register, it's free!)

Your First Notification

Once logged in, click on the Edit Notifications link on your Registered User Menu, then click on the 'Add Notification' button.

You will then be presented with a search form. Enter the search criteria for the types of books that you are interested in, specify a descriptive name for the search and click 'Save Notification'. You will then be returned to your 'List of Current Notifications', which will have your new notification listed below.

For example, anyone interested in new Java books would type 'java' in the Title field, and 'New java books' in the Description field, or if you are interested in knowing when your favourite author has released another book type their surname in the Author field.

Deleting Notifications

If you no longer want to receive a particular notification, simply click the 'Delete' link to its right. The notification will be deleted and you will be returned to your 'List of Current Notifications'.

Editing Notifications

To change a notification, click the 'Edit' link to the left of the description, change the search criteria for the notification and click 'Save Notification' to update it.

Testing a Notification

You can test the notification at any time by clicking on the 'Search now' link. A list of the new titles that match your search criteria will be displayed.