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Early rev of 'Clojure Programming' book from O'Reilly now available

63 points by cemerick 15y ago

ohyes 15y ago
Just briefly looking at the topics index list, I don't see anything about macros (or even meta-programming). Was this done on purpose? Should we expect a sequel if this does well?
- cemerick 15y ago
  The ToC only includes what was released to Rough Cuts this time around. We're pushing up a large backlog of content into one end of Rough Cuts on Monday (including a chapter on macros); it'll hopefully come out the other side so you can see it before the end of the week.
  - ohyes 15y ago
    nice, looking forward to it.
cletus 15y ago
Is this going to be out on Kindle? It would be awesome if you could get the Rough Cuts and final form on Kindle as I can't imagine buying it on anything else.
- runevault 15y ago
  Not one of the authors but I have a ton of oreilly books and the ones I have all got a mobi version at some point. Though the impression I get is the rough cuts is pdf only.
  - nkassis 15y ago
    Yeah for some reason oreilly doesn't use the same system for final books and rough cuts. Rough cuts are on safari, their online book library service, while regular books are just available from oreilly.com. I think it's because each rough cut is generated for one user. I wish they could unify those a little. At least have Safari generate books in multiple formats.
- cemerick 15y ago
  FYI, we're checking into this for you; look for a later reply here once we hear back from our editor.
- cemerick 15y ago
  According to our editor, the book will be available for the Kindle as a special "Kindle Edition" through Amazon, and will otherwise be available online in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats. This apparently[1] goes for the Rough Cut as well. Here's a link detailing what is downloadable, when, how, with a video demo'ing the content download functionality: http://support.safaribooksonline.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid=1591&c=12&cp=5&cpc=TKvN0Y442nJr412P03W5i0TtoO3RudHqcSeVI http://support.safaribooksonline.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid... [1] FYI, I have an "author's" account on Safari, and the privs for it seem to not include book downloads, so I've not been able to verify this for myself.

63 points by cemerick 15y ago

ohyes 15y ago

Just briefly looking at the topics index list, I don't see anything about macros (or even meta-programming). Was this done on purpose? Should we expect a sequel if this does well?

cemerick 15y ago
The ToC only includes what was released to Rough Cuts this time around. We're pushing up a large backlog of content into one end of Rough Cuts on Monday (including a chapter on macros); it'll hopefully come out the other side so you can see it before the end of the week.
- ohyes 15y ago
  nice, looking forward to it.

cletus 15y ago

Is this going to be out on Kindle? It would be awesome if you could get the Rough Cuts and final form on Kindle as I can't imagine buying it on anything else.

runevault 15y ago
Not one of the authors but I have a ton of oreilly books and the ones I have all got a mobi version at some point. Though the impression I get is the rough cuts is pdf only.
- nkassis 15y ago
  Yeah for some reason oreilly doesn't use the same system for final books and rough cuts. Rough cuts are on safari, their online book library service, while regular books are just available from oreilly.com. I think it's because each rough cut is generated for one user. I wish they could unify those a little. At least have Safari generate books in multiple formats.
cemerick 15y ago
FYI, we're checking into this for you; look for a later reply here once we hear back from our editor.
cemerick 15y ago
According to our editor, the book will be available for the Kindle as a special "Kindle Edition" through Amazon, and will otherwise be available online in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats. This apparently[1] goes for the Rough Cut as well. Here's a link detailing what is downloadable, when, how, with a video demo'ing the content download functionality: http://support.safaribooksonline.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid=1591&c=12&cp=5&cpc=TKvN0Y442nJr412P03W5i0TtoO3RudHqcSeVI http://support.safaribooksonline.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid... [1] FYI, I have an "author's" account on Safari, and the privs for it seem to not include book downloads, so I've not been able to verify this for myself.