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Show HN: JavaScript Application Design book
- albertoleal 12y agoIt's interesting that this kind of book is being released now, than, say two years ago.
- ourmandave 12y agoIt was released today, but there's already a used copy for sale. o_O
- Zombieball 12y ago"Unread copy in perfect condition." and it is $39.56 instead of $29.99. My guess is this is just a drop shipper. This seller doesn't actually have a copy of the book and will instead automatically order it for you if you choose to buy from them.
- tpg 12y agoI don't understand why such a drop shipper would get any orders when pricing considerably above new. Do you have any insight as to why somebody would bother? Seems like a wasted effort.
- Sophistifunk 12y agoThere's no effort, it's a bot.
- Zombieball 12y agoSophistifunk's mention about it being a bot is most likely the case. Frequently drop shippers will source (site scrape) from one website and sell on another. A good example would be purchasing (used) books from AbeBooks.com, and cross-posting to the Amazon.com marketplace for sale with a markup. Sometimes their prices may come out lower and actually result in a sale. Chances are this bot scraped this book from another site (among many others) and re-posted it to Amazon with this markup. Side anecdote: Ever seen posters around town claiming you can "make $X / month, working from home!" ? Sometimes these are drop shippers. They cannot always ship orders directly to the customers that purchased them due to whatever security restrictions may be in place from where they are actually purchasing their merchandise from. Instead they hire folks to receive packages, slap a new shipping label on them, and send them back out.
- andrewfong 12y agoAutomated script gone wrong?
- Kiro 12y agohttp://news.discovery.com/tech/amazon-lists-books-for-23-million-bucks.htm http://news.discovery.com/tech/amazon-lists-books-for-23-mil...
- keslag 12y agoA book released today with a 5 star rating about how much the reviewer needed this book? Horse shit. If it was your mom, I might buy it. My mom would give 5 stars and babble on about how cute I was as a baby. But Si Dunn rates almost everything 5 stars, and everything is life changing to this manning plant.
- DanBC 12y ago> (My thanks to Manning for providing a review copy.) In England that line needs to go at the front of the review, but even so the reviewer is open about the relationship.
- bshimmin 12y agoHe seems legit, unless this page is just a pack of lies, which is quite possible I suppose: https://sagecreek.wordpress.com/about/ https://sagecreek.wordpress.com/about/
- keslag 12y agoNo he doesn't. Si Dunn only gives out 4 & 5 star reviews with the vast majority being 5 star. Si Dunn also isn't a programmer, he's a non fiction author and professional book reviewer. He's a shill, his reviews are all the same formulaic BS. He doesn't understand enough about writing code to actually review the book and instead fills space by using author quotes or lists the definitions of what the technology is.
- cenazoic 12y agoIn fairness to Si Dunn, he DOES disclaim on the linked about page: "NOTE: I am not paid by publishers to review and tout their books. And I do not guarantee to publish a review about a particular book. If I do not like a book, I will not review it here. Writing a book requires significant time, effort, and expense, and I will not trash someone else’s writing."
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- azmenak 12y agoI'm very curious about what process is used to choose book covers. This one seems even more random than most other books related to programming.
- bevacqua 12y agoManning use people in old costumers for their covers[1], and I hand-picked the fisherman who presumably catches fish with his bare hands as a metaphore that the book will give you the tools you need to stop catching fish with your bare hands. [1]: http://manning.com/about/covers.html http://manning.com/about/covers.html
- notjustanymike 12y agoIf you can make sense of the cover, you can make sense of javascript.
- fekberg 12y agoCongratulations on publishing your first book! Did you have to write the book in Word, or could you use something like LaTeX?
- tzm 12y agoSeriously, congrats on writing and publishing your book. I'm in the process of proofing a similar book for a colleague that (funny enough) was signed by Manning, but he decided to buy back the rights and self publish.
- bevacqua 12y agoThank you! I was undecided at first, but at least in my case it really paid of to have a team of editors, proofers, and reviewers helping me along the way. I definitely recommend it for first-timers.