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wow, i'm surprised apress let him do this cool
by utnick 17y ago
wow, i'm surprised apress let him do this
cool
- icey 17y agoThey do it with other books as well: Practical Common Lisp: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ Dive Into Python: http://diveintopython.org/ http://diveintopython.org/
- DannoHung 17y agoCoincidentally, these are the only two APress books I've ever bought. Maybe I should make it a trifecta.
- jamesbritt 17y agoI bought PCL so as to encourage this sort of thing, even though I can read it off my laptop. Plus it's a good book. :)
- dmoho 17y agoAdd one more to the list: The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (http://www.djangobook.com/ http://www.djangobook.com/)
- limmeau 17y agoand http://pylonsbook.com/ http://pylonsbook.com/ (just got a dead tree of it yesterday, BTW)
- mechanical_fish 17y agoI learned both CVS and SVN from their canonical, free books. (I barely remember their names. They're "the CVS book" and "the SVN book", and you all know how to find them. ;) So it's no surprise that folks are now trying to create canonical, free books for the next generation of VC as well. I will start forwarding this to people I know at once.
- petercooper 17y agoJust a data point: they wouldn't let me do it. My book Beginning Ruby has sold about 10,000 copies with only a few hundred in e-book format, and despite pleading (and even begging) with them to be able to release my second edition in a "free" online format (since the e-book sells so appallingly compared to the print edition) - no go :-( Instead I can release a few chapters each month or something similarly annoying. So kudos for Apress on this, but with the people bitching about the lack of free Ruby books, it's a shame they couldn't extend the same courtesy to me. Even just free as in beer, not even in speech as with this one..!