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Hi, Kefka. I'm the author of the book. Could you please not post links to pirated versions of it on HN? Thanks, Matt

• kefka 10y ago
  My apologies. I'm used to having rip-offs like Elsiver and such in academia that I assumed that you (the author) were also in the same predicament. When the search on the common academic piracy pages showed this book, I assumed that I was only harming the parasitic journal companies. Evidently, I wasnt :/ For that, I apologise.
  • mattpharr 10y ago
    No worries! The publishing industry has gotten worse in a lot of ways in the ~10 years since we did the first edition. The whole for-profit academic journals thing makes me sad in general, etc. However, it's also impressive how much work how many people put in to publish a book (illustrators, proof-readers, copy editors, professional layout, etc., etc.). For a specialist book like PBR that sells ~1500 copies a year, no one involved is making a ton of money from the process including, as far as I can figure, the publisher. Even though the most important reason I've done my part of that work is to try to spread knowledge as widely as possible, that all does make me want to do my small part to discourage piracy. :-)
• Asooka 10y ago
  Damn, that's rather cold isn't it? Students etc. who frequent this site can't just drop a hundred dollars for a random book and they're really the ones who would benefit the most from trying out a course like that on their own.