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No digital version ? I think that's absolutely ridiculous! I read their reasons for not having one but lets be honest, this is a book for programmers ? And it
by ashray 13y ago
No digital version ? I think that's absolutely ridiculous!
I read their reasons for not having one but lets be honest, this is a book for programmers ? And it doesn't have a digital version ? Someone's clearly lost the plot here!
I supported the previous edition of the book since the beta version. I'm a digital nomad, I work all over the world, I'm not about to lug a 446 page django book with me wherever I go.
There are several developers who like to search for and bookmark stuff in their ebooks. Now it's impossible to Ctrl+F.
Some of us like to read on the train or like to read on different platforms (kindle/ipad/iphone/android/etc).
I recommended the first version of this book to several fellow django programmers. Unfortunately I am really disappointed by this print-only decision. The fact that piracy was a reason for it disheartens me even more.
I guess these guys have never heard of anyone scanning in a physical book and sharing PDFs over the internet. Providing a print only version will just hurt legitimate customers, the pirates are still gonna pirate :( I can count down the days that this shows up on the pirate bay.
As for the fact that "The print version sold the most". Well, were the print people supporting your book while you were in beta releasing new versions every week ? Did they give you feedback on how good/bad the content was ?
Seriously guys, your next book should be about "How not to do programming books".
- neves 13y agoAnd we in the corners of the world have to pay a lot of money just for shipping.
- FireBeyond 13y agoYeah. Fairly disappointed. I just paid print+epub version of "Two Scoops of Django 1.5" very recently, and now out comes this. Not saying that I should get a free copy, no. But I don't have a choice but to pay another $40. (Not that I -have- to.)