I haven't been impressed with the technical level of some of these books. It's fairly low.
[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration One-Day Sale
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#12Does anyone have a "best of" list or a list of their favorite books from Pragmatic Bookshelf?
To be honest, their entire catalog belongs in my "best of" pile.
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#13Can you get a discount on the beta books?
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#14Can you get a discount on the beta books?
I've received discounts on beta books in other PragProg sales.
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#15It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal. Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.
I would agree with you if those on Amazon have DRM-free ebook version.
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#16"We’re offering 40% off everything in the store—books, PDFs, and screencasts. There are a couple of exceptions, including The Pragmatic Programmer book itself (ironically, we don’t publish it), and the Programming Ruby 1.9 which is already on its anniversary sale."
Also note:
the coupon is valid from 00:01PST to 23:59PST on Friday,
November 26th. (PST is 8 hours behind GMT)
And interestingly it's starting from 00:01, not from 00:00.
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#17Can you get a discount on the beta books?
No, that's one of the exceptions called out.
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#18Does anyone have a "best of" list or a list of their favorite books from Pragmatic Bookshelf?
Pragmatic Thinking And Learning is outstanding. I killed at least one highlighter on the first read. It's a permanent bonus to your first derivative. In fact, thanks for reminding me it's time for a re-read.
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#19It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal. Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.
I would agree with you if those on Amazon have DRM-free ebook version.
Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.
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#20It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal. Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.
The sale is exciting to those of us who want to buy the ebooks, which are not available from Amazon. (I'm thinking about now buying Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages on Friday.)
Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!