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Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by BinRoo »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #29
samstokes wrote: post #21

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I got the same error message - "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists." Packt also signs me up to 5 newsletters (not that Amazon doesn't, but that's a problem I already had :)). Still, an ebook this substantial for $10 is awesome. I hope the Packt discount isn't eating into the author's profits :(

I bought the book for $10 also. Yes it does cut into the author's profits, but tech book authors generally don't write motivated for making a lot of money :-) Rather, the advantages are sharing knowledge and meeting a lot of cool people. I have written several books, and writing is a pathway to meeting interesting people.

Agreed! :)

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by harry8 »

BinRoo wrote: post #31
mark_l_watson wrote: post #29

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I bought the book for $10 also. Yes it does cut into the author's profits, but tech book authors generally don't write motivated for making a lot of money :-) Rather, the advantages are sharing knowledge and meeting a lot of cool people. I have written several books, and writing is a pathway to meeting interesting people.

Agreed! :)

Out of interest, why not just self publish on the net avoiding the whole money angle altogether? Is there another advantage in going down that route if it basically doesn't pay?

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by cfeduke »

jonnybgood wrote: post #25
m0nastic wrote: post #5

I'm excited to read this, I just bought a copy. I'm presently debating between using Haskell or Clojure for data analysis here at work (or most likely some combination of the two), so the timing couldn't be better.

For Clojure, there's the Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook[0] and Clojure for Machine Learning[1]. Both on my reading list. [0] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-data-analysis-cookbook/book [1] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-for-machine-learning/book

There is also the sequel to the Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook, Mastering Clojure Data Analysis[0].

While I don't know for certain I'm going to theorize the Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook began as a Haskell version of the Clojure books since they've were written by a student and professor, respectively, at UVA.

Both of the Clojure books are excellent - you can look at them as a practical hands on way of learning Clojure as an experienced programmer. I'm familiar with Nishant's excellent quality of work so I imagine the Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook would help a curious programmer learn practical Haskell. (I intend to pick up a copy for just this purpose.)

[0] http://www.packtpub.com/mastering-clojure-data-analysis/book

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by lsllc »

avitous wrote: post #19
BinRoo wrote: post #8

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Yup! The eBook is here: http://www.packtpub.com/haskell-data-analysis-cookbook/book

Easy enough to get it onto a Kindle after buying from the Packt site, but +1 to looking into getting it on Amazon's Kindle store as dealing with Packt was less than stellar. On first visiting Packt site (thru link on your website) the paper+ebook bundle was shown as $43.99, and I sometimes spring for those if they're discounted enough, especially pre-order (as this is, or used to be anyway). On clicking through that…

Same here. Was showing $43.99 for the bundle, ends up as $54.99 when checking out. Going back to the main page still shows it at $43.99 (but it says "Print cover: $54.99" in small print, whatever this means).

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by lsllc »

lsllc wrote: post #35
avitous wrote: post #19

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Easy enough to get it onto a Kindle after buying from the Packt site, but +1 to looking into getting it on Amazon's Kindle store as dealing with Packt was less than stellar. On first visiting Packt site (thru link on your website) the paper+ebook bundle was shown as $43.99, and I sometimes spring for those if they're discounted enough, especially pre-order (as this is, or used to be anyway). On clicking through that…

Same here. Was showing $43.99 for the bundle, ends up as $54.99 when checking out. Going back to the main page still shows it at $43.99 (but it says "Print cover: $54.99" in small print, whatever this means).

Well, after lunch when I went to pay for it, somehow the ebook was $10. I removed the book and was able to get the ebook for $10. As others have said, while it's a nice price, I like to see the author get rewarded for their effort, so I'll probably do the "upgrade to print".

I also picked Paypal because I'm not sure if this is some clever dynamic pricing/optimization engine or if the site is buggy!

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by peatmoss »

samstokes wrote: post #10
BinRoo wrote: post #8

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Yup! The eBook is here: http://www.packtpub.com/haskell-data-analysis-cookbook/book

Thanks! I lazily only clicked through to Amazon and didn't see it there. I don't know what's involved in getting the Kindle version into Amazon's store, but it might be worth it, as their buying experience is very slick - one click and you're reading the book in 60 seconds.

Having purchased a few of of Packt's books, I have to say that I have not missed the Amazon store infrastructure to get things on to my Kindle. Having a choice in the formats from Packt is kind of awesome. If I want Kindle, I can send to Kindle. If I want proper pagination and the ability to make sure figures haven't been mangled, PDF.

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by superfunc »

jsw97 wrote: post #27
S4M wrote: post #11

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libraries. I expect Python and R to have much more available libraries for machine learning than Haskell/

Exactly. There is not yet a pandas equivalent, there is no scikit-learn, etc. Hopefully this will happen.

Fair enough, I just wasn't sure what you meant.
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