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ADV: Rail Beta Book now available

Dave Thomas

5/27/2005 1:02:00 AM

Folks:

Sorry to barge in with some gross commercialism, but I thought it might
be of interest. We've just released a beta version of our new Rails
book, "Agile Web Development with Rails." This is basically a
pre-copyedit, pre-layout version of the book, available as a PDF. Buy
it now (either as a straight PDF or as a combo-pack with the paper
book) and we'll ship you the Beta PDF now, then ship you the final PDF
(along with the paper book if you ordered it) when the book is finished
(around the first of August).

Details are here: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/tit...

Thanks


Dave
12 Answers

Matt Lawrence

5/27/2005 1:07:00 AM

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Dave Thomas

5/27/2005 1:48:00 AM

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On May 26, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:

>> Sorry to barge in with some gross commercialism, but I thought it
>> might be of interest. We've just released a beta version of our new
>> Rails book, "Agile Web Development with Rails." This is basically a
>> pre-copyedit, pre-layout version of the book, available as a PDF. Buy
>> it now (either as a straight PDF or as a combo-pack with the paper
>> book) and we'll ship you the Beta PDF now, then ship you the final
>> PDF (along with the paper book if you ordered it) when the book is
>> finished (around the first of August).
>
> Will you autograph it as well? It would be nice to have it match the
> Pickaxe Book.
>

Kinda hard with the PDFs... :)

(I guess I could digitally sign it, but I suspect it won't have the
same appeal)

Gene Tani

5/27/2005 1:56:00 AM

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Could you post Table of Contents somewhere, pls?

Nicholas Wieland

5/27/2005 8:16:00 AM

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- Dave Thomas :
> Sorry to barge in with some gross commercialism, but I thought it might
> be of interest. We've just released a beta version of our new Rails
> book, "Agile Web Development with Rails." This is basically a
> pre-copyedit, pre-layout version of the book, available as a PDF. Buy
> it now (either as a straight PDF or as a combo-pack with the paper
> book) and we'll ship you the Beta PDF now, then ship you the final PDF
> (along with the paper book if you ordered it) when the book is finished
> (around the first of August).
>
> Details are here: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/tit...

Great !
Anyway, it seems that your site doesn't support Paypal payment, just
Visa/Mastercard. I'd be happy to buy the PDF + Book but actually I use
Paypal to buy on the net, I don't have a credit card for
Do I have to wait for the book ?

TIA,
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gabriele renzi

5/27/2005 8:51:00 AM

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Dave Thomas ha scritto:
> Folks:
>
> Sorry to barge in with some gross commercialism, but I thought it might
> be of interest. We've just released a beta version of our new Rails
> book, "Agile Web Development with Rails." This is basically a
> pre-copyedit, pre-layout version of the book, available as a PDF. Buy it
> now (either as a straight PDF or as a combo-pack with the paper book)
> and we'll ship you the Beta PDF now, then ship you the final PDF (along
> with the paper book if you ordered it) when the book is finished (around
> the first of August).
>
> Details are here: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/tit...
>
> Thanks


cool, and do I understand correctly that you'll follow this approach for
other stuff?
(actually I think the sourcebeat approach is even better but you're the
decision makers :)

Gene Tani

5/27/2005 11:44:00 AM

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I have a ? and a !

What is the license for the PDF? I'm wondering if i can send it to a
friend that's learning perl.

Kudos for color-coded errata, and to all the folks that are all over it
and sent in purple errata. The bar for software title publishers goes
up a decent amount.

Dave Thomas

5/29/2005 2:47:00 AM

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On May 27, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

> Anyway, it seems that your site doesn't support Paypal payment, just
> Visa/Mastercard. I'd be happy to buy the PDF + Book but actually I use
> Paypal to buy on the net, I don't have a credit card for
> Do I have to wait for the book ?
>

I'm afraid right now we don't accept Paypal--we try to keep our
overheads down, and Visa/MC is already a major headache :)

Does anyone experience as a Paypal merchant? How are they to work with?

Cheers

Dave

Dave Thomas

5/29/2005 2:49:00 AM

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On May 27, 2005, at 3:55 AM, gabriele renzi wrote:

> cool, and do I understand correctly that you'll follow this approach
> for other stuff?

We're hoping to, but we'll see how this works first.

> (actually I think the sourcebeat approach is even better but you're
> the decision makers :)

Sourcebeat is fine if you write linearly, but much of our stuff gets
refactored as it goes along. However, we're experimenting right now,
and this is just the first iteration. Who knows what we'll be doing a
year from now?

Cheers

Dave

Dave Thomas

5/29/2005 2:53:00 AM

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On May 27, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Gene Tani wrote:

> I have a ? and a !
>
> What is the license for the PDF? I'm wondering if i can send it to a
> friend that's learning perl.

The PDF is licensed to you, and is intended for your use. We don't do
any DRM on it, but each PDF bears your name and a few other identifying
marks. We don't restrict what our readers do, but we ask them to treat
us fairly. Copying the book to friends is against the spirit of this.

> Kudos for color-coded errata, and to all the folks that are all over it
> and sent in purple errata. The bar for software title publishers goes
> up a decent amount.

The errata system was a quick hack (literally less than an hour on
Thursday morning, but it's been one of the high point of the
experiment. I'm loving having all the feedback in one place.


Cheers


Dave

Hal E. Fulton

5/29/2005 2:55:00 AM

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Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> On May 27, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
>
>> Anyway, it seems that your site doesn't support Paypal payment, just
>> Visa/Mastercard. I'd be happy to buy the PDF + Book but actually I use
>> Paypal to buy on the net, I don't have a credit card for
>> Do I have to wait for the book ?
>>
>
> I'm afraid right now we don't accept Paypal--we try to keep our
> overheads down, and Visa/MC is already a major headache :)
>
> Does anyone experience as a Paypal merchant? How are they to work with?

If you wanted to go to the trouble, you could always have the
money sent directly to a personal Paypal acct in exceptional
cases. Just don't publicize it, and you won't have to do the
extra web work to interface to Paypal.


Hal