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In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Re: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Post by nkassis »

cas wrote: post #5
foobar_42 wrote: post #2

Isn't a bit distasteful to use the occasion of someone's death to sell books?

Especially that the offer does not seem particularly good since they are only ebooks and seem overpriced in the first place. The physical books are already cheaper on Amazon and kindle versions cheaper still. Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.

Little know trick (I don't use it) that O'reilly himself probably frowns upon but doesn't discourage is that if you regitster a physical book with the ISBN you can get the ebook for 5 bucks. You only need the ISBN for this. O'Reilly has said many times he prefers that as many people as possible read the books. And hopefully enough will pay for them to make them viable. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on his belief about this).

I remember O'Reilly himself saying that the pricing on Ebooks was currently an experiment and they are trying to figure out what is best. That's why, in my opinion, they do eboook deals every day.

Re: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Post by calibraxis »

cas wrote: post #5
foobar_42 wrote: post #2

Isn't a bit distasteful to use the occasion of someone's death to sell books?

Especially that the offer does not seem particularly good since they are only ebooks and seem overpriced in the first place. The physical books are already cheaper on Amazon and kindle versions cheaper still. Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.

Manning has a 45% sale off everything, if you use code "halloweekend45". They sell Clojure, Erlang and other books. We can pretend it's a McCarthy Day celebration. :)

Re: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Post by jdludlow »

wyclif wrote: post #8

I would be far more impressed and gratified if Prentice Hall were cool enough to offer Kernighan & Ritchie's classic "C Programming Language" (2nd Edition) at 1/2 off their $57.99 sticker-shock price. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...

I don't even want to think about the cost of this book right now. I recently cleaned out a huge pile of old computer books, stacking them into "keep" and "trash". My copy of K&R is currently missing. Odds are pretty decent that it's floating in a slurry of paper pulp.

With any luck I loaned it out and forgot about it. I'll still never see it again, but at least it's still doing something useful.

Re: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Post by nkassis »

jdludlow wrote: post #13
wyclif wrote: post #8

I would be far more impressed and gratified if Prentice Hall were cool enough to offer Kernighan & Ritchie's classic "C Programming Language" (2nd Edition) at 1/2 off their $57.99 sticker-shock price. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...

I don't even want to think about the cost of this book right now. I recently cleaned out a huge pile of old computer books, stacking them into "keep" and "trash". My copy of K&R is currently missing. Odds are pretty decent that it's floating in a slurry of paper pulp. With any luck I loaned it out and forgot about it. I'll still never see it again, but at least it's still doing something useful.

I'm on my second one too now. I loaned it a while back to someone and never got it back. In a way I feel good about that. Someone is now a better programmer because of that :) And they obviously liked it enough to keep it.

Re: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

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Post by benatkin »

cas wrote: post #5
foobar_42 wrote: post #2

Isn't a bit distasteful to use the occasion of someone's death to sell books?

Especially that the offer does not seem particularly good since they are only ebooks and seem overpriced in the first place. The physical books are already cheaper on Amazon and kindle versions cheaper still. Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.

> Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.

They're eBooks so the margins are pretty high.

I think it would have been nice if they'd offered a deep discount on paper books on this occasion.

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