Books going cheap

re: Books going cheap

rfin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:50:37 GMT

perhaps Manning could make a "book mash-up" of interesting new stuff from their exisitng content that includes your new c#4 content, and a few chapters from some of their other .net\c# related content?

i appreciate that this is even more tenuous!

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:35:25 GMT

@rfin: I don't think it would make sense to do that as a hard copy, but I'm talking to Manning about what we can do in terms of an ebook that's just the new chapters, possibly with a rebate if the purchaser then bought the complete 2nd edition. No promises though.

re: Books going cheap

rfin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:28:25 GMT

@Jon (and @Adrian)

Is is an easy win for the publisher to also publish a book that is just the chapters relevant to c#4?

that way, new readers could get the whole new edition, and existing owners of the first edition could buy the "add-on" edition

I appreciate that this is most likely pie-in-the-sky (and would be a pretty slim book), but i suspect it'd be a popular publication

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:45:15 GMT

@Adrian: The "big" new content will basically be three new main chapters:

- Named arguments, optional parameters, COM tweaks, variance

- Dynamic typing

- Code Contracts and Parallel Extensions

Additionally I'll be going back over the old text and updating it, but don't expect *huge* changes for the most part.

re: Books going cheap

Adrian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:36:21 GMT

Jon. I got a copy of the first edition as soon as it shipped and think it's great. Comparing the contents (chapter names) of the second edition leaves me wondering how much C#4/new content there is.

Cheers.

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:35:29 GMT

@Bill: Yes, there are quite a few people in the UK who feel likewise. I'm collecting a list of names, and we'll see what we can do. No promises, but drop me an email to get on the list.

re: Books going cheap

Bill Billington — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:34:56 GMT

I loved the first edition and was in the process of ordering the second when I noticed the shipping cost to the UK!

Oh dear ...

I think ill wait for Amazon

re: Books going cheap

Anthony — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:11:33 GMT

@Jon. Good point. What I want is something to study C# as soon as possible but I don't really mind if it's a hard copy or not so yes it makes sense to pre-order the 2nd edition now and I will use the ebook version of the first edition for now.

Thanks for your speedy reply!

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:53:13 GMT

@Anthony: When you pre-order the second edition, you get the ebook of the first edition free.

If you want a hard copy soon, buy the first edition. If you're happy with an ebook version of the first edition for the moment, get the second edition.

Jon

re: Books going cheap

Anthony — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:04:40 GMT

It looks like there is only one chapter available on 'C# in Depth, 2nd edition'. Is this correct? If so, it probably makes more sense for me to order the 1st edition for the time being. What do you reckon?

re: Books going cheap

Vincent Croquette — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:34:26 GMT

Just ordered my copy

This is going to be a studious week end

re: Books going cheap

Vincent Croquette — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:19:50 GMT

Ahh OK thanks

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:28:21 GMT

@Vincent: what you can buy today (and more cheaply tomorrow) is the "MEAP" version (Manning Early Access Program). Basically you get access to the book as I'm writing it, and the full copy when it's finished.

re: Books going cheap

Vincent Croquette — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:23:12 GMT

@Jon

From the COM post:

I'm currently writing about these features for the book

Does it mean the book we can order tomorrow is not the final version?

Thanks

Faking COM to fool the C# compiler

Jon Skeet: Coding Blog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:28:49 GMT

C# 4 has some great features to make programming against COM components bearable fun and exciting. In

re: Books going cheap

Eric Rybarczyk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:10:43 GMT

Wow, apparently I need to actually read :-) Sorry.

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:16:17 GMT

Eric: that's because it's not Thursday :) Try again then...

re: Books going cheap

Eric Rybarczyk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:06:18 GMT

Their shopping cart reports "The coupon code you have entered has expired." when attempting to use twtr0710 on the Functional Programming book.

re: Books going cheap

skeet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:01:56 GMT

Sergey: At http://twitter.com/jonskeet

It's been retweeted rather a lot today already - it'll be interesting to see whether that translates into sales.

re: Books going cheap

Sergey Kovalev — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:55:26 GMT

Where are your tweets?