I have found "The Pragmatic Bookstore" handling of the beta review process for Stuart Halloway's book on "Programming Clojure" simply excellent. Of the listed p

I have found "The Pragmatic Bookstore" handling of the beta review process for Stuart Halloway's book on "Programming Clojure" simply excellent. Of the listed points in this article: 1. People are absolutely willing to buy beta books. [Clojure's beta book was near completion content-wise, and very readable and usable in everyday learning of clojure.] 4. ... do not lay out the beta version beautifully in InDesign ... [They were clearly typesetting in LaTeX.] 5. Have an update plan in advance. [The update plan was announced from the beginning and worked really well via email notifications. 6. It's never a good idea to publicly promise to ship on X date ... [They never had a final date. They even waited for Clojure to stabilize to 1.0.] 7. The types of folks who buy beta books are very involved, and will send you all kinds of helpful emails about typos, errors, or suggestions... [My impression is that Stuart got even overwhelmed.] And to top it, beta reviewers not only got the ebook; they were promised a free printed book. Hats off.