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It's the way manning sells the books. If you want to read quietly, you have to purchase the book
by viebel 7y ago
It's the way manning sells the books.
If you want to read quietly, you have to purchase the book
- joosters 7y agoI have no problem about people selling books. Put free snippets of the book (or the whole thing) online, or don't. Either is fine. But putting the text online and making it hard to read is just stupid.
- dragandj 7y agoWhile I agree with you, it's worth pointing out that the author (viebel) has no say in how the publisher distributes free samples. It is simply a given, they don't ask, and the only thing that the author can do about it is to publish with someone else. When you self publish, that aspect is easier. You simply do what you think is best, listen to the audience, and make it better whenever possible. Now I'll shamelessly put a link to samples of my Clojure book here. It is not competing with the OP's Clojure book, since mine is about Deep Learning and high performance computing. I simply put several chapters as PDFs for free, and if you like it, you can subscribe to the whole book (still a WIP, so you get drafts as they are written). https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/#download https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/#downloa... Of course, this requires manual maintenance, something that I can do, but is too much hassle for big publishers that have to deal with many books and even more readers at the same time.
- viebel 7y agoThe OP appreciates your feedback dragandj and is happy to welcome your book.
- jonahbenton 7y agoCongrats on your book, your work in the space is inspiring.
- dragandj 7y agoThank you.
- afandian 7y agoI'm a fan of Manning books and I've bought several. But if this jumbled text gimmick was was my first introduction I'd run a mile.
- viebel 7y agoI am curious to read your feedback on my Clojure book. Please send feedback by email: viebel@gmail.com