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The price is inadequate. I would pay $10, maximum $20 for it, especially taking into account that the subject is well documented in blogs and official documenta

The price is inadequate. I would pay $10, maximum $20 for it, especially taking into account that the subject is well documented in blogs and official documentation.

trumbitta2 13y ago
That's certainly a good point of view. Thanks for the feedback! I wrote the book exactly to help who finds the official documentation too difficult to grasp as a whole. I was in that very situation two years ago when I started with Bootstrap, and I thought that people out there will be in the same situation starting with Bootstrap 3 now.
- goblinfoblin 13y ago
  I think it might be a pretty small group of people that know about bootstrap but don't/can't figure out how to use it, and will pay $59-79 dollars for an ebook. $25 is a reasonable price for ebooks with a large amount of useful content but won't get impulse buys. $5-10 will get impulse buys but you might not get as much money in aggregate. $59-70 is ridiculous for any book, to me that is like textbook pricing. I personally probably would've bought it in the $5-10 dollar range even though I know bootstrap and find the documentation easy to understand. Best of luck. Edit: I never made it to your $29-39 ebook pricing which might grab more people, might want to show that there are 2 options better (2 columns maybe).
- solomatov 13y ago
  The problem with the documentation isn't that it's difficult to grasp, but that it's scattered all over the internet, i.e. some useful stuff is on stackoverflow, some in blogs, some in official documentation. It's a good niche for a book, i.e. many people would buy it, provided, that it has a comfortable price. I like the book and contents, but the price on the site is quite large. A can buy a bunch of tech books on IT ebook sites like Oreilly's for it. I would buy it without thinking for $10, with some thinking for $20, and for something around $30, I will buy only after thinking through about whether I really need it.
  - trumbitta2 13y ago
    Thanks, that's the kind of feedback I'd always like to get! I had doubts about the pricing until the very last second before launching. But all in all, I just remembered all the work and passion I put in it, and decided to go on with this pricing. Now that a good number of purchases are done, I just can't change my mind. So I'll go on, and learn whatever there will be to learn from this amazing experience.
    - cloudwizard 13y ago
      I would have felt better about Ebook pricing if you included the kindle version. I keep my reference books on a kindle with a 2 month battery. My tablets are always out of power when I need them.
      - oracuk 13y ago
        A kindle version is a good idea. The PDF is difficult to read on the kindle in its current layout and an auto-conversion by Calibre makes it worse. I'm limited to reading this on my laptop and my phone now. It looks like good content. shame about the format.
        trumbitta2 13y ago
        I don't know... the code on the book is meant to be read and immediately tried. What's better than a PC / Laptop for that? That, and the difficulty (for me, at least) to get a decent book filled with screenshots and examples in epub / mobi, is the main reason why a chose to not produce Kindle-ready formats.
      - oracuk 13y ago
        A kindle version is a good idea. The PDF is difficult to read on the kindle in its current layout and an auto-conversion by Calibre makes it worse. I'm limited to reading this on my laptop and my phone now. It looks like good content. shame about the format.
jackmaney 13y ago
Agreed. The pricing is ridiculous. $79 for an ebook, git repositories (which should be on GitHub in the first place!), and a few Bootstrap themes (many of which are open source) is laughable. There's no way in hell I'm buying this, which is a shame, since I'm in the middle of redesigning my personal website to use Bootstrap 3.
- trumbitta2 13y ago
  Hey, the git repositories are there to avoid to copy-paste from the PDF (which is an awful experience) the source code of Part 2. The bootstrap themes are nowhere to be found because I wrote them for the book and as an example for those starters the book is aimed at. And for the first day the price is $59, which people seem to be happy with so far :) Also, there's the book without the extras, if you think it could be useful to you... but I sense you are not a starter, now are you?
  - jackmaney 13y ago
    "but I sense you are not a starter, now are you?" What the hell is that supposed to mean?
    - trumbitta2 13y ago
      School british english with a bit of fantasy slang. I'm sorry. Rephrasing: "but from what I can read, I guess you are not a newbie with Bootstrap nor frontend design (so the book is not for you)"
      - jackmaney 13y ago
        "I guess you are not a newbie with Bootstrap nor frontend design" Your guess is wrong. If you had put the repositories and themes up on GitHub and dropped the price of the book to $20, I would have glanced at the ToC and most likely bought it.
    - msprague 13y ago
      What's with the animosity?

The price is inadequate. I would pay $10, maximum $20 for it, especially taking into account that the subject is well documented in blogs and official documentation.

trumbitta2 13y ago

That's certainly a good point of view. Thanks for the feedback! I wrote the book exactly to help who finds the official documentation too difficult to grasp as a whole. I was in that very situation two years ago when I started with Bootstrap, and I thought that people out there will be in the same situation starting with Bootstrap 3 now.

goblinfoblin 13y ago
I think it might be a pretty small group of people that know about bootstrap but don't/can't figure out how to use it, and will pay $59-79 dollars for an ebook. $25 is a reasonable price for ebooks with a large amount of useful content but won't get impulse buys. $5-10 will get impulse buys but you might not get as much money in aggregate. $59-70 is ridiculous for any book, to me that is like textbook pricing. I personally probably would've bought it in the $5-10 dollar range even though I know bootstrap and find the documentation easy to understand. Best of luck. Edit: I never made it to your $29-39 ebook pricing which might grab more people, might want to show that there are 2 options better (2 columns maybe).
solomatov 13y ago
The problem with the documentation isn't that it's difficult to grasp, but that it's scattered all over the internet, i.e. some useful stuff is on stackoverflow, some in blogs, some in official documentation. It's a good niche for a book, i.e. many people would buy it, provided, that it has a comfortable price. I like the book and contents, but the price on the site is quite large. A can buy a bunch of tech books on IT ebook sites like Oreilly's for it. I would buy it without thinking for $10, with some thinking for $20, and for something around $30, I will buy only after thinking through about whether I really need it.
- trumbitta2 13y ago
  Thanks, that's the kind of feedback I'd always like to get! I had doubts about the pricing until the very last second before launching. But all in all, I just remembered all the work and passion I put in it, and decided to go on with this pricing. Now that a good number of purchases are done, I just can't change my mind. So I'll go on, and learn whatever there will be to learn from this amazing experience.
  - cloudwizard 13y ago
    I would have felt better about Ebook pricing if you included the kindle version. I keep my reference books on a kindle with a 2 month battery. My tablets are always out of power when I need them.
    - oracuk 13y ago
      A kindle version is a good idea. The PDF is difficult to read on the kindle in its current layout and an auto-conversion by Calibre makes it worse. I'm limited to reading this on my laptop and my phone now. It looks like good content. shame about the format.
      - trumbitta2 13y ago
        I don't know... the code on the book is meant to be read and immediately tried. What's better than a PC / Laptop for that? That, and the difficulty (for me, at least) to get a decent book filled with screenshots and examples in epub / mobi, is the main reason why a chose to not produce Kindle-ready formats.
    - oracuk 13y ago
      A kindle version is a good idea. The PDF is difficult to read on the kindle in its current layout and an auto-conversion by Calibre makes it worse. I'm limited to reading this on my laptop and my phone now. It looks like good content. shame about the format.

jackmaney 13y ago

Agreed. The pricing is ridiculous. $79 for an ebook, git repositories (which should be on GitHub in the first place!), and a few Bootstrap themes (many of which are open source) is laughable. There's no way in hell I'm buying this, which is a shame, since I'm in the middle of redesigning my personal website to use Bootstrap 3.

trumbitta2 13y ago
Hey, the git repositories are there to avoid to copy-paste from the PDF (which is an awful experience) the source code of Part 2. The bootstrap themes are nowhere to be found because I wrote them for the book and as an example for those starters the book is aimed at. And for the first day the price is $59, which people seem to be happy with so far :) Also, there's the book without the extras, if you think it could be useful to you... but I sense you are not a starter, now are you?
- jackmaney 13y ago
  "but I sense you are not a starter, now are you?" What the hell is that supposed to mean?
  - trumbitta2 13y ago
    School british english with a bit of fantasy slang. I'm sorry. Rephrasing: "but from what I can read, I guess you are not a newbie with Bootstrap nor frontend design (so the book is not for you)"
    - jackmaney 13y ago
      "I guess you are not a newbie with Bootstrap nor frontend design" Your guess is wrong. If you had put the repositories and themes up on GitHub and dropped the price of the book to $20, I would have glanced at the ToC and most likely bought it.
  - msprague 13y ago
    What's with the animosity?