If memory serves, the web version was always sort of an "alpha". The book now has a physical print edition, so I guess he wants that to take priority. Kind of

If memory serves, the web version was always sort of an "alpha". The book now has a physical print edition, so I guess he wants that to take priority. Kind of a bummer, but fortunately I already worked through the book when it was in alpha and saved a copy of all of my exercise solutions in case I need to refer back to them in the future. EDIT: Looking at an Archive page reinforces my view on this: http://web.archive.org/web/20150203094342/http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book http://web.archive.org/web/20150203094342/http://c.learncode... "This is the in-progress free version of Learn C the Hard Way." So my understanding is we were basically beta-testing his book for him and providing feedback in exchange for his making it free. He's finished it, smoothed it out, and finalized it with some additions and videos, so now he wants money for it. Seems fair enough to me. I've seen the physical edition at Barnes and Noble a few times. I might thumb through it one day and see if there's enough content beyond what I pulled from the alpha to be worth buying.