If you enter the promo code "LREL40", you get further discount to $5.99.
Confirmed, I've just bought with that code and it's indeed $5.99.
O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
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Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#22It's a PDF, right?
It's an experiment, there are more e-books available for that price, including several Perl books: http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524
Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#23I can never bring myself to buy ebooks it just isn't worth it to read on a screen I hate it. This is tempting but it still seems like a waste. Print is always better than digital in my opinion though I haven't tried a kindle yet.
It's 11 dollars used on amazon, I'm going to opt for that one instead. I am fully with you on ebooks, reading books on screen isn't pleasurable for me at all. edit: amazon has it for 8 dollars for the kindle( which can be read on am iphone if you're so inclined)
Speaking of iPhone, the book is available as an iPhone app for $4.99:
http://appshopper.com/books/the-ruby-programming-language
They say that they worked with Lexcycle, makers of Stanza, the iPhone ebook-reader, to make this work well.
At the bottom of the page are 5 screenshots showing how the book looks on an iPhone.
Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#24Hm. When I cliked on the Ebook "Add to Cart", Opera complained that the encryption key length was too short, and thus that the site was insufficiently secure.
Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#25If you enter the promo code "LREL40", you get further discount to $5.99. Confirmed, I've just bought with that code and it's indeed $5.99.
Worked for me too. $6 for a bad ass book. Thanks for posting
Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#26Hm. When I cliked on the Ebook "Add to Cart", Opera complained that the encryption key length was too short, and thus that the site was insufficiently secure.
Opera is correct. https://epoch.oreilly.com is using a 512-bit RSA key.
Re: O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
#27I can never bring myself to buy ebooks it just isn't worth it to read on a screen I hate it. This is tempting but it still seems like a waste. Print is always better than digital in my opinion though I haven't tried a kindle yet.
I don't mind reading programming books on the computer. If you like to try the examples as you're reading, it saves you from having to move between the dim pages of the book and the bright computer screen. For a novel, though, I definitely prefer the Kindle or a real book. (Real books annoy me now, because they are harder to hold. They are too springy, and fighting that gets tiring. Yes... I am lazy...)
Haha, I feel you :)