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Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99
- deepuj 14y agoIt's priced at 34 USD in India. :(
- zappan 14y agoCroatia - $4.99 - still a bargain
- tomlogic 14y agoMust have been a limited time offer -- I got a sample sent to my Kindle, and now that I'm ready to buy it's jumped back up to US$22.79.
- milesf 14y agoI see a price of $31.47
- MattGrommes 14y agoAre you looking at the Kindle version? Are you in the US? Might be a US-only price.
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- goochtek 14y agoI see $31.99 in Australia. The interesting thing though is that the link has a referral code in it. Maybe the submitter is trying to make some money on it with some bait and switch ?
- weaksauce 14y agoNot really a bait and switch but yeah I imagine they are trying to do just that. The referral code sets a cookie that lasts for anything that you buy for 24hrs from amazon.
- jlarocco 14y agoI just bought a copy for $2.99, so it's not really a bait and switch.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoAs somebody else mentioned the referral code lasts for 24 hours.
- matthewlmcclure 14y agoNo bait and switch intended. I guess the $2.99 price isn't available everywhere. It worked for me in the US.
- chollida1 14y agoWhy include the referral code?
- matthewlmcclure 14y agoWhy not?
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- Smerity 14y agoI see $31.99 in Australia too... This is making me rage a little inside. It's a DIGITAL BOOK Amazon. DIGITAL. Bits. I know it's a little bit further to Australia but for the love of... Amazon is like the Harvey Two-Face -- half amazing and half frustrating. I have a Kindle Fire in Australia, but as Australia isn't an official country yet, Amazon Market doesn't work. And by doesn't work I mean I can't even download free applications without an American credit card. Amazon support know this and just apologise. When friends ask me about the Kindle Fire in Australia, I won't say good stuff about it. When it finally is released here, do you think they'll be it? No. They'll remember I said it was annoying for some reason. The reason doesn't matter. Bad is bad so they'll decide, many moons ago, that they're not getting it. Amazon in Australia are horrible. For many, many reasons[1]. [1]: Amazon Affiliate program pays out by gift certificate or check to Australia -- http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/11/29/an-open-letter-to-the-amazon-associates-program/ http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/11/29/an-open-letter...
- JeremyBanks 14y agoI'd be pretty surprised if Amazon were responsible for this particular pricing. You're probably better of directing your rage at the publisher.
- richardw 14y ago$4.99 in South Africa. I also spotted the referral code, which I didn't think anyone would try on HN. Oh well, bought.
- alanpca 14y agoIt was reporting a price of $31.47 for me in Canada as well. I jumped on a US proxy and saw $2.99, then attempted to purchase. It wouldn't let me, and suggested I change the country associated with my Kindle application. I changed the address to a US one, and the purchase went through. One of the positives of living in a border city with multiple shipping addresses, I guess.
- lparry 14y agoYep, US$31.99 here in Australia. I was going to re-buy it (I already have a hard copy), but I'll be damned if I'm going to at that price. Regional pricing is such a scam.
- osxwm 14y agoIn the US, logged into my US Amazon account that is linked to a Kindle I see the price of $2,99
- newsomderek 14y agoThis is awesome!
- rwl4 14y agoMaybe they meant to type 29.95 or similar but somehow typed something like 2.995?
- alecdibble 14y agoThanks! That is quite the discount.
- droob 14y agoBe warned that this is a very clunky e-book port -- they don't make much effort to adapt the sidebars and quotes to .mobi format, so you end up reading into the middle of them without realizing it.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoAt the normal price I'd be more concerned (.mobi doesn't seem that friendly to technical books to begin with), but for $3 I'd say it's far less of an issue.
- ninetax 14y agoThis is really an excellent book. I feel like this book was the pivotal thing that really let me see how the small amount of programming I knew could be so much more with the practices preached in that book. It took me from "OK I get how to program in Java, but how the heck do I build this cool stuff I see everyday?" to "oh, if I wanted to do that I can see pretty much how I would build it (regardless of language)" It's a must read.
- dbecker 14y agoAgreed. I've read a few different programming books, and this was the one that did the most to improve my programming. The material isn't incredibly advanced, so some expert programmers will get less out of it. But I think it's very worthwhile for 90% of programmers. I would highly recommend this book to most people considering it.
- jlarocco 14y agoI hope this trend catches on. Between my Kindle and iPad, I'd really like to never buy a physical book ever again. But then I still have four full book cases from before Kindle existed. I want to "upgrade" to ebooks, but I don't want to spend the money. At $3 each, I'd at least upgrade some of the better ones.
- jmduke 14y agoI have this amazing dream of a facility where I can bring in boxes of books and they hand me back a USB drive filled with pdf copies of those books. I don't know how or when that would happen, but it would be glorious.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoThey have this system at my local bank branch (I assume it's worldwide though, I hope at least) that you bring in a bag of coins, dump them into the slot and in a few seconds you've got a receipt to get that credited to your bank account. This for books would be great! Books go in, epubs come out!
- lookatpete 14y agohttp://1dollarscan.com/index.php http://1dollarscan.com/index.php Haven't used them, but it might be worth a shot
- toomuchtodo 14y agoI had a library of around 1000+ books; any book I couldn't get as a Kindle book, I had 1dollarscan.com scan. They did a phenomenal job. No relation, just very satisfied with their results.
- vijayr 14y agoIs it allowed for all books? I've a few physical books that don't have digital versions, it would be nice to scan them and give the physical ones away.
- iceron 14y agoAffiliate tag? Not cool.
- andyl 14y agoI don't agree. Was glad to get notified about this bargain. IMHO this is what affiliate programs are for.
- richardw 14y agoThe problem is, once you start that on HN you'll have yet another reason for overposters to post every vaguely relevant special they see. I didn't mind that the poster did it (so bought via the referral) but it'd be sad if this caught on, and I wouldn't post a link with a referral myself. The benefits around here are karma, mutual respect and increased collective wisdom. Let's not find ways to dilute those further.
- rodly 14y agoI agree that this is a potential problem but it is easily solved by the voting system. Low-quality submissions don't get much karma.
- LoganCale 14y agoGod forbid someone else make a small bit of money off a sale in exchange for promoting it!
- rodly 14y agoI honestly think people that complain about referral link are just inherently negative. A free link, that takes you to a promotion, that saves you money, and you want to point out that the guy who brought this to your attention, is gaining something positive, at no expense to you or anyone. You probably pirated the book too. Thanks OP, great deal and I bought it.
- iceron 14y agoRegardless, this type of linking violates responsible FTC disclosure. http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotice.pdf http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotic...
- goochtek 14y agoAny US users want to help us foreigners out by gifting it for the $2.99 price?
- jconnop 14y agoI have the $2.99 price available to me in New Zealand. As I'm usually the one getting screwed by regional pricing (on steam), I'd be happy to help out. Just drop me the funds via paypal and I'll gift to your email via amazon. Email me: jconnop at google's glorious gmail.
- deepuj 14y agoI doubt if that will work. As per http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_200555070_kindlegifts&nodeId=200555070#receive http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_2... "If the giver and the recipient do not live in the same country, the book may not available to the recipient due to copyright restrictions. In these cases the recipient will be given the option to request an exchange for gift credit on their Amazon.com account during the redemption process, or they may contact Customer Service for assistance in exchanging the book."
- tapsboy 14y agoPhilanthropy or Strategy?
- jnotarstefano 14y agoUnfortunately not available to italian customers, who'd have to purchase it at 19 euros (23 dollars). Is there a legal workaround?
- _joe 14y agoThe only workaround I see I declaring you have moved to the US. I work for a US corporation and with the company VPN I'm allowed to see the 2.99 $ price, but when I log in I'm told I can only buy titles from amazon.it. So, no luck, we're stuck with 19 euros (which is still a good price though).
- davewasthere 14y agoBit bummed that it's not available on Amazon.co.uk for even £2.99... Instead it's £15.30 Think I've got the physical book somewhere anyway. It's just now that I travel a lot, I like to have the Kindle version as well. Seth Godin seems to be able to synchronise his deals/giveaways between amazon.com & amazon.co.uk... Shame this wasn't as well.
- DrStalker 14y agoUSD$31.99 for me in Australia.
- imrehg 14y ago$4.99 over here because of Whispernet.... (darn, and it would just use wifi anyway)
- djt 14y agoPG could you please change the title to reflect its only $2.99 in the US? Im in OZ and it's $31.99
- jacques_chester 14y agoI wonder if this is yet another example of Australian readers being shafted by parallel importation laws, so that Tim Winton can make a few extra bucks.
- brc 14y agoTim Winton or his lame publishers? The sooner the Australian publishing + bookselling industry dies, the sooner a newer, better model can arise from it's twitching corpse.
- jacques_chester 14y agoGiven that Tim Winton piped up last time abolishing parallel import bans was floated, I'm going to go with ... Tim Winton. It wasn't for his benefit, you understand. He was reluctantly arguing for the price of his novels to be artificially propped up so that other, less successful authors could also be propped up.
- kroger 14y agoIt's not only in the US. I was able to buy it from Brazil.
- chad_oliver 14y agoYou should come to NZ: It's 2.99 here.
- Dramatize 14y agoHmm. Went to click buy but it was still $31.99.
- chollida1 14y agoIt's currently $31.47 in Canada.
- salman89 14y agoAwesome price, but worrisome for the state of high quality digital publications. I feel that this is worth much more than $2.99, and I am afraid that it will become a race to the floor . Does anyone involved in print publications know what the cost distribution is on a book's sticker price?
- re_todd 14y agoCrap, I bought it a couple months ago for full price, should have waited.
- eupharis 14y agoBy the by, for those familiar with the pragmatic bookshelf, and were hoping to get it without DRM on that site, this was published by Addison Wesley, not pragmatic bookshelf. One wonders how much the authors' experience publishing with Addison Wesley led to their founding Pragmatic Bookshelf. They do have a page for the book on their site: http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/ http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/ But the buy link is broken: http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/titles/tpp http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/titles/tpp In short, just buy the damn thing from Amazon. I've used my Kindle everyday for two years. This is the first DRM'd ebook I've ever bought.
- SCdF 14y agoWow, so this is the first time I've seen one-click purchasing (It's not normally enabled for me). It's really disconcerting. Not that I want to (and it's only $3) but is there any way to cancel a one-click purchase? It's not obvious..
- jonknee 14y agoYes and especially easy for digital orders. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200144510&#books http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... > Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. To request a refund and return, visit Manage Your Kindle, click the actions tab for the title you'd like to return, and select "Return for refund."
- anonimo 14y agoI'm midway through this book and I'm fairly disappointed with it. It's not a bad book, bu much of the advice in it is common sense. And the parts that aren't common sense aren't very convincing (silly metaphors etc). Some of these 3-star reviews do a good job of reviewing it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-ebook/product-reviews/B000SEGEKI/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_3?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addThreeStar&showViewpoints=0 http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-eb...
- Nick5a1 14y agoTo anyone outside the US, you can easily add a second US address (or any other country) to your kindle account. Go to Your Account > Manage Your Kindle (in the Digital Content section) > Country Settings > Enter any US address and click update You will now have US pricing. You can go ahead and add different addresses in other countries and you can simply switch between them to take advantage of different pricing, because Amazon remembers your previous addresses. The country you have selected has no effect at all on being able to download the book, you can still download from anywhere.
- mva 14y agoFor the ones that are seeing a different price. There is a small trick workaround for that. You can generate a real US address here: http://www.realusaaddress.com/ http://www.realusaaddress.com/ and make that your primary address. As you as shipping digital stuff it doesn't matter that it's not your real address. Prices of the Kindle store should drop immediately. Watch out when making non digital purchases though that you select the correct address ;-)
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoIf the Kindle is registered to a UK device it blocks it at that point. I used a proxy so I looked like I was in the US, registered a new account and it was all fine but it wouldn't let me gift it to a UK Kindle.
- EliRivers 14y agoAnd..... bang! It's easier to pirate it, so I will. When it's difficult to give someone my money, I just won't bother. I am well aware that the world of international publishing is a convoluted mess (Charles Stross covers it well over on antipope); I'm not sympathetic enough to that mess to be willing to get charged such disparate amounts.
- jagira 14y agoI don't get the difference in pricing. Do Kindle books involve local publishers like printed books? (e.g A book published by Penguin in USA and TMG in India has different prices)
- kruk 14y agoYep. You can read an answer to a similar question here: http://brentweeks.ning.com/forum/topics/not-allowed-to-buy-your-ebooks?commentId=2442541%3AComment%3A137516 http://brentweeks.ning.com/forum/topics/not-allowed-to-buy-y...
- KTamasEnty 14y agoYes you can use a fake US address and set your Kindle country to the US, but Amazon monitors the IPs (and credit cards) you are buying from and after a few purchaes to your fake US address, they'll start sending you letters asking for proof you live there and eventually lock you out (force you to change back to your real country) if you can't provide them.
- epsil 14y agoDoes anybody know of a good PDF version of this book? The only one I've found is at Safari Books Online, which is a subscription site with "tokens". It appears to let you download the book chapter for chapter. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-and-development/020161622x http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-an...
- ljf 14y agoReading the comments/reviews on Amazon, and I was wondering what peoples take on this book is for non-coders? I'm purely editorial/product (not project) management - but this looks like it could give me a rounded understanding of best practice. Those who have read it, would you recommend to someone of my background?
- dripton 14y agoYes. I loved this book, but didn't really get much out of it except affirmation of my own beliefs. I think it would be much more valuable for a new programmer, or a non-programmer who works with programmers, than for an experienced programmer.
- avallark 14y agofuck you, you just cost me 27$. You should have mentioned (for US only) My mistake for completely trusting something i read here. next time i ll be double checking. lesson learned.
- vijayr 14y agoRelax, you can return the book http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200144510 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
- danbee 14y agoSeriously? You just clicked on "Buy" without even confirming the price?
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- avallark 14y agoI just figured out how to do this. In "Manage your Kindle" option on your Amazon account, you can return any item that has been bought in the last 7 days.