billpollock

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by billpollock 7y ago
It it has taken us months to get Amazon to respond to a counterfeit claim. I hope that they will respond quickly to this one.
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by billpollock 7y ago
These books are counterfeits. Counterfeiting is illegal and intent doesn't matter. This is not a matter of some other seller providing Amazon with inventory. These are coming direct from a printer to Amazon and being sold in place of t
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by billpollock 7y ago
Unfortunately this case may be a bit different. When you order this book by pressing just the Buy button, as in shipped and sold by Amazon, you get the counterfeit. I know because I ordered two copies last week. Both came and both were coun
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by billpollock 7y ago
We've had a very similar experience. On more than one book our product pages were replaced with images from the counterfeit. In a certain way it was quite funny. Ultimately it was very frustrating
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by billpollock 8y ago
Why should your ebook files be watermarked? Your printed books aren't. Watermarks are ugly.
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by billpollock 8y ago
Part of our current Humble Bundle, too.
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by billpollock 9y ago
No Starch Press is not an O'Reilly imprint. We have no affiliation with O'Reilly. We do sell our ebooks through Safari though.
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Blaschka Glass Invertebrates(mcz.harvard.edu)
1 points by billpollock 9y ago|0 comments
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The Kosher Salt Question – TASTE(tastecooking.com)
1 points by billpollock 9y ago|0 comments
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MicroG Project: Free re-implementation of Android user space apps and libraries(microg.org)
2 points by billpollock 9y ago|0 comments
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Algebraic Geometry [pdf](cis.upenn.edu)
5 points by billpollock 9y ago|0 comments
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by billpollock 9y ago
That's helpful insight. Thank you.
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by billpollock 9y ago
Interesting. A step beyond Xposed and Xprivacy.
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by billpollock 9y ago
I should try it without installing Gapps. I just do the install routinely.
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by billpollock 9y ago
Also the name of a vape :)
46.
by billpollock 9y ago
I've used it for years. I like it but it feels slow with 7.x. looking at 5T.
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by billpollock 9y ago
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I'll give it a try.
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by billpollock 9y ago
OnePlus One
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by billpollock 9y ago
I use that but it's all Google based. Not sure if you can decouple it from Play Services without breaking everything.
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by billpollock 9y ago
OP here. I actually liked the pointers to F-Droid apps, too. I'm on LineageOS. I've used F-Droid for years but mainly for things like Adaway. Timber and notes apps look interesting, also K-9 of course.
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Review: Copperhead OS(adventuresinoss.com)
272 points by billpollock 9y ago|156 comments
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by billpollock 9y ago
This is sad news. Years ago we developed a Linux Journal Press imprint but it didn't really go very far. Many great authors have written for Linux Journal and I've enjoyed many excellent articles over the years.
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by billpollock 9y ago
I definitely agree. Book publishing, in my opinion, needs to shift to meet the changing needs of readers. Many tech book publishers continue to publish the way they have for the last 20+ years but the world has changed. We don't need m
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by billpollock 9y ago
That can change; it depends on the publisher's perspective and goals. Our goal is always to publish fewer better books. (I stole that line from Prentice Hall. They forgot it years ago. :)
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by billpollock 9y ago
There are undoubtedly royalties being paid as some (unknown) percentage of sales. The advance is essentially a loan against earned royalties. Publishers spread advances over numerous projects. The real money comes when a book sells well and
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by billpollock 9y ago
I'd love to see your writing become a book! Four color, nicely bound. I'd love to read that.
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by billpollock 9y ago
This will sell
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by billpollock 9y ago
Yes, please do :)
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by billpollock 9y ago
Completely agree.
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by billpollock 9y ago
All of our ebooks have always been DRM-free. That's true for some other publishers, too.

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