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Six books, each $20, none of them that big? That seems excessive to me. Does it need to be spread so thinly?

inglor 12y ago
All of them are available online for free - as the other comment states: the logical division is so you don't have to buy books about things you don't care about. It's not about making more money.
imdsm 12y ago
Read them for free online, and if you're a tactile person and enjoyed the books, buy them. Probably the best deal you're gonna get!
_getify 12y ago
> each $20 I'm trying to work with O'Reilly to bring down the prices on the books a little bit. I always wanted them to be priced so that price wasn't a barrier to entry. As you can imagine, there's lots of intricate details which restrict what I can do with pricing. > none of them that big Hmmm... Page counts on the titles (so far) are: 65, 98, 176, 189, 296. The last book isn't finished yet, but I'm projecting it to be somewhere around the 150-200 mark. I can appreciate that $20 for a 100pg book may feel "excessive", but what about $26 for a 296 page book? Moreover, I'm working (still) on getting O'Reilly to release a box set for a flat price that will be much more reasonable than buying each book individually, so that if you want the whole series you'll have an affordable option for that. And you'll of course still have the option to buy just one or two of the books if that's your fancy.
- AndrewDucker 12y ago
  Aaah - sorry, I hadn't realised that some of the books were much larger than the first two I looked at. $20 for a 300-page book is very good value! I just looked at a couple, and it seemed like it was being split into small chunks (60 pages, 100 pages) as a way of selling more of them. Clearly I should have researched further!
- Tad_Ghostly 12y ago
  Thank you for showing a commitment to getting useful knowledge published at reasonable prices. And of course, there isn't anything more reasonable than "free on github". I'm excited to pick through these books to become a stronger javascript programmer.
epalm 12y ago
> none of them that big You sound like middle management weighing lines of code instead of quality of work.

All of them are available online for free - as the other comment states: the logical division is so you don't have to buy books about things you don't care about. It's not about making more money.

imdsm 12y ago

Read them for free online, and if you're a tactile person and enjoyed the books, buy them. Probably the best deal you're gonna get!

_getify 12y ago

> each $20 I'm trying to work with O'Reilly to bring down the prices on the books a little bit. I always wanted them to be priced so that price wasn't a barrier to entry. As you can imagine, there's lots of intricate details which restrict what I can do with pricing. > none of them that big Hmmm... Page counts on the titles (so far) are: 65, 98, 176, 189, 296. The last book isn't finished yet, but I'm projecting it to be somewhere around the 150-200 mark. I can appreciate that $20 for a 100pg book may feel "excessive", but what about $26 for a 296 page book? Moreover, I'm working (still) on getting O'Reilly to release a box set for a flat price that will be much more reasonable than buying each book individually, so that if you want the whole series you'll have an affordable option for that. And you'll of course still have the option to buy just one or two of the books if that's your fancy.

AndrewDucker 12y ago
Aaah - sorry, I hadn't realised that some of the books were much larger than the first two I looked at. $20 for a 300-page book is very good value! I just looked at a couple, and it seemed like it was being split into small chunks (60 pages, 100 pages) as a way of selling more of them. Clearly I should have researched further!
Tad_Ghostly 12y ago
Thank you for showing a commitment to getting useful knowledge published at reasonable prices. And of course, there isn't anything more reasonable than "free on github". I'm excited to pick through these books to become a stronger javascript programmer.

epalm 12y ago

> none of them that big You sound like middle management weighing lines of code instead of quality of work.