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In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks
- foobar_42 15y agoIsn't a bit distasteful to use the occasion of someone's death to sell books?
- patrickod 15y agoIf this prompts more people to discover Ritchie's work then I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing.
- cas 15y agoEspecially that the offer does not seem particularly good since they are only ebooks and seem overpriced in the first place. The physical books are already cheaper on Amazon and kindle versions cheaper still. Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.
- nkassis 15y agoLittle know trick (I don't use it) that O'reilly himself probably frowns upon but doesn't discourage is that if you regitster a physical book with the ISBN you can get the ebook for 5 bucks. You only need the ISBN for this. O'Reilly has said many times he prefers that as many people as possible read the books. And hopefully enough will pay for them to make them viable. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on his belief about this). I remember O'Reilly himself saying that the pricing on Ebooks was currently an experiment and they are trying to figure out what is best. That's why, in my opinion, they do eboook deals every day.
- Maven911 15y agoWould you mind giving more details on where one could register the ISBN, do you have a link ?
- nkassis 15y agohttps://members.oreilly.com/account/register/index https://members.oreilly.com/account/register/index You need to register a Oreilly.com account. Once you do that you should be able under Your Products and then Print Books to upgrade them to Ebooks for 4.99. It's a crazy good deal. I've also seen people just buy the book off the Android app store and export the epub out of the app. I think the Adiko book app will do that for you.
- SageRaven 15y agoI love O'Reilly's books. I discovered the $5 ebook upgrade, and plowed through registering and upgrading all 30-off books that I've accumulated over the past 20 years. Then I bought a few since then on their daily deal. But the real kicker was I suddenly had a coupon code that lasted for about 2 weeks that was for $5 for any new ebook. I blew about $200 that pay period, so now I've got enough reading material for half a life-time. I so wish Amazon would loosen up on their Kindle DRM. I've only purchased a few titled, and my Kindle is pretty much am O'reilly Reader these days. I really wish the cost of the ebooks was in the $5 range for most titles (O'Reilly or not). At that price, I'd purchase so many tech books on impulse, I'd probably never get around to reading most of them, but rather to have them for reference.
- calibraxis 15y agoManning has a 45% sale off everything, if you use code "halloweekend45". They sell Clojure, Erlang and other books. We can pretend it's a McCarthy Day celebration. :)
- benatkin 15y ago> Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation. They're eBooks so the margins are pretty high. I think it would have been nice if they'd offered a deep discount on paper books on this occasion.
- abecedarius 15y agoO'Reilly's ebooks are DRM-free. Kindle version is not.
- cas 15y agoYou can easily remove the Kindle DRM using Calibre and some plugins.
- abecedarius 15y agoI choose not to reward publishers of DRMed works with my money. If some of the open-format stuff is too pricey, well, there's plenty to read off in the free world anyway.
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- benatkin 15y agoNot necessarily, and not in this case.
- jfricker 15y agoHucksters are opportunists.
- kia 15y agoIt's not only C/C++ but also books about vim, git, linux kernel, shells, etc.
- tehjones 15y agoIts a shame they dont sell the most useful C book of them all.
- rudiger 15y agoWhich, if any, of these books are worth buying?
- wyclif 15y agoDon't bother with any of these until you're read K&R.
- cynest 15y agoI'm wanting to learn C++. Is it still worth it to start off with K&R? Obviously I would probably go through K&R later, but it might be better to start off with something more relevant.
- patrickod 15y agoPractical C Programming was my introduction text into the world of programming and I found it to be very good. K&R is also a great book if you want to start C
- wyclif 15y agoI would be far more impressed and gratified if Prentice Hall were cool enough to offer Kernighan & Ritchie's classic "C Programming Language" (2nd Edition) at 1/2 off their $57.99 sticker-shock price. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...
- jdludlow 15y agoI don't even want to think about the cost of this book right now. I recently cleaned out a huge pile of old computer books, stacking them into "keep" and "trash". My copy of K&R is currently missing. Odds are pretty decent that it's floating in a slurry of paper pulp. With any luck I loaned it out and forgot about it. I'll still never see it again, but at least it's still doing something useful.
- nkassis 15y agoI'm on my second one too now. I loaned it a while back to someone and never got it back. In a way I feel good about that. Someone is now a better programmer because of that :) And they obviously liked it enough to keep it.
- sliverstorm 15y agoYou can pick up the first edition for a dollar or two. The second doesn't have any groundbreaking information that I'm aware of.
- wyclif 15y agoBetter yet, you can just grab a pirated PDF copy.
- phaus 15y agoI saw a copy of this at my local Borders for about $25 during their final sale. Sadly I made the mistake of not purchasing it because I was already in the process of learning a few other languages. I figured the price on Amazon would probably be about the same. I was mistaken.
- nithinag 15y agoa very nice gesture!
- dramaticus3 15y agovultures
- terhechte 15y agoIs K&R available as an eBook somewhere? I'd even gladly pay the shocking $50+ for an eBook version just so I don't have to lug the dead tree around.
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- piface 15y agohttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/47543308/books/TheCProgrammingLanguageSecondEdition.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47543308/books/TheCProgrammingLangua... But buy the book.
- huhtenberg 15y agoI hope this becomes an annual event.
- strlen 15y agoWhat, if any of these, make sense to a mid-level C developer: read K&R inside and out, had a bit of code in the kernel, worked on a major "C+", i.e., "C with classes" project? The only one of these I own are "Mastering Algorithms with C" (fairly useful) and "Understanding the Linux Kernel" (rather useful and well written, could actually be used for an graduate/advanced undergraduate operating systems class).
- farslan 15y agoI highly recommend "The Linux Programming Interface". It's one of the best book out there. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272203.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272203.do
- ajasmin 15y agoShouldn't they make Lisp books cheaper in honor of John McCarthy as well?