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Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by jacques_chester »

brc wrote: post #56
jacques_chester wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if this is yet another example of Australian readers being shafted by parallel importation laws, so that Tim Winton can make a few extra bucks.

Tim Winton or his lame publishers? The sooner the Australian publishing + bookselling industry dies, the sooner a newer, better model can arise from it's twitching corpse.

Given that Tim Winton piped up last time abolishing parallel import bans was floated, I'm going to go with ... Tim Winton.

It wasn't for his benefit, you understand. He was reluctantly arguing for the price of his novels to be artificially propped up so that other, less successful authors could also be propped up.

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by JeremyBanks »

brc wrote: post #57
lookatpete wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://1dollarscan.com/index.php Haven't used them, but it might be worth a shot

After a quick scan, it looked like you have to use their own reader? Surely not?

You misread. They give you a PDF. I think their "reader" is just a PDF viewer that includes the ability to download your books from their site.

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by _joe »

jnotarstefano wrote: post #28

Unfortunately not available to italian customers, who'd have to purchase it at 19 euros (23 dollars). Is there a legal workaround?

The only workaround I see I declaring you have moved to the US. I work for a US corporation and with the company VPN I'm allowed to see the 2.99 $ price, but when I log in I'm told I can only buy titles from amazon.it.

So, no luck, we're stuck with 19 euros (which is still a good price though).

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by eupharis »

By the by, for those familiar with the pragmatic bookshelf, and were hoping to get it without DRM on that site, this was published by Addison Wesley, not pragmatic bookshelf.

One wonders how much the authors' experience publishing with Addison Wesley led to their founding Pragmatic Bookshelf.

They do have a page for the book on their site:

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/

But the buy link is broken:

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/titles/tpp

In short, just buy the damn thing from Amazon.

I've used my Kindle everyday for two years. This is the first DRM'd ebook I've ever bought.

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by anonimo »

I'm midway through this book and I'm fairly disappointed with it. It's not a bad book, bu much of the advice in it is common sense. And the parts that aren't common sense aren't very convincing (silly metaphors etc). Some of these 3-star reviews do a good job of reviewing it:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-eb...

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by chm »

eupharis wrote: post #64

By the by, for those familiar with the pragmatic bookshelf, and were hoping to get it without DRM on that site, this was published by Addison Wesley, not pragmatic bookshelf. One wonders how much the authors' experience publishing with Addison Wesley led to their founding Pragmatic Bookshelf. They do have a page for the book on their site: http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/ But the buy link is broken: http…

I think the link's simply malformed. This makes more sense:

http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp

But still, no option to buy.

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by Nick5a1 »

To anyone outside the US, you can easily add a second US address (or any other country) to your kindle account.

Go to Your Account > Manage Your Kindle (in the Digital Content section) > Country Settings > Enter any US address and click update

You will now have US pricing. You can go ahead and add different addresses in other countries and you can simply switch between them to take advantage of different pricing, because Amazon remembers your previous addresses. The country you have selected has no effect at all on being able to download the book, you can still download from anywhere.

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by jonknee »

SCdF wrote: post #65

Wow, so this is the first time I've seen one-click purchasing (It's not normally enabled for me). It's really disconcerting. Not that I want to (and it's only $3) but is there any way to cancel a one-click purchase? It's not obvious..

Yes and especially easy for digital orders.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

> Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. To request a refund and return, visit Manage Your Kindle, click the actions tab for the title you'd like to return, and select "Return for refund."

Re: Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

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Post by tfe »

lookatpete wrote: post #27
jmduke wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have this amazing dream of a facility where I can bring in boxes of books and they hand me back a USB drive filled with pdf copies of those books. I don't know how or when that would happen, but it would be glorious.

http://1dollarscan.com/index.php Haven't used them, but it might be worth a shot

I tried them and the results were not great. They didn't OCR it (though I think they do now?) and the resulting PDF was pretty much unreadable on my Kindle.
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