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Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by facorreia »

drostie wrote: post #51
aymeric wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you should remove this link. It is just not nice.

I don't know. On the one hand, it's also not nice for people to fish for my email address, which is why services like Mailinator are so wildly popular. On the other hand, it doesn't always justify not-nice behaviour to note that it's in response to, and works to ameliorate, other not-nice behaviour. Yes, I know, 37signals is a bit more respectable than most of the people who want your email. Nevertheless they're sign…

For years I have worked under the assumption that my email has been harvested to death, sold and resold. I don't care about giving it to companies.

Gmail hides the spam from me and it's quick filter wizard helps me hide anything else I want to.

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by fleitz »

theone wrote: post #24

I don't know about others, but personally it sucks when some product for which I paid, is now available for less or even free. Specially in case of electronics, you buy something when its new. The next month you meet some friend with the same piece, which he got for fraction of price. And more disturbing is that at that point of time, your piece is older and his is new. Here I am not talking about this case in partic…

That's called the time value of money, if you wait long enough you can have almost anything for free.

If you go to Bangladesh you can pick up entire cargo ships for free, of course they aren't terribly useful anymore, but you can save yourself a bundle.

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by Jauny »

davidw wrote: post #55
nadam wrote: post #53

I like this book, very inspirational. About 'Less features' I've mixed feelings. In lots of markets (for example I am building a markdown editor for windows) you have lots of free competition, and one of the most important competitive advantages of paid applications is feature-completeness. Just too much people build 'minimal' free applications nowadays. 'Minimal' can get in the way of monetization easily. Also 'Buil…

A company of mine has been competing very successfully with 37 signals by doing significantly less than they do: http://73primenumbers.com/

I don't know if I should laugh or not :|

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by obtu »

petercooper wrote: post #36
mhartl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make a good point, but in this case I think it's implicit in their form that you're joining a list of some kind. Otherwise, they would just have a download link.

I think it's on a par with getting an update every now and then from a store you've bought something from. The 'subscription' is rarely disclosed in this case, but there's understood to be a 'relationship'. I had a look through MailChimp's TOS and it could be interpreted a few ways but this sort of 'existing relationship' thing is covered, although it pertains to a purchase rather than a freebie.

Even if I bought from a store it's not expected, and because I always look for the opt-out checkboxes, anything unexpected goes to the spam bin.

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by obtu »

nyrb wrote: post #5
dudurocha wrote: post #4

This is wonderful. One of the best reality checks for a developer/entrepreneur. Not to be a dick, but I would appreciate a mobi version of it.

Same here and I would also love to see the epub version of it, too.

Someone in this thread has made a wget copy (easily convertible to ePub), ask him to contact you.

Nevermind, the html version is still public: https://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by rbanffy »

theone wrote: post #24

I don't know about others, but personally it sucks when some product for which I paid, is now available for less or even free. Specially in case of electronics, you buy something when its new. The next month you meet some friend with the same piece, which he got for fraction of price. And more disturbing is that at that point of time, your piece is older and his is new. Here I am not talking about this case in partic…

Are you really sure you want to be happier as long as you have what other people don't?

Re: Getting Real book is now free PDF

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Post by fierarul »

killercup wrote: post #52
fierarul wrote: post #47

I wonder why the PDF looks that way? It seems designed not to be printed. And there's also no ebook available, just the PDF, so if you want it on the Kindle you have to convert it yourself. It's like they try to nudge you towards buying the thing. Which, of course, isn't a bad thing but I wonder if it's intentional. It's a pretty old book though so I doubt this strategy will work but I might be mistaken.

What always surprised me: Amazon sells a (pretty nice) Kindle version, but all you get from 37Signals is this lame PDF. (Maybe they want you to print it on really large paper and use it as your office wallpaper? That's a completely different strategy…)

Perhaps they don't own the rights to redistribute the Kindle version?

Anyhow, I would have preferred a simple text file. I don't see what PDF gives me except extra work to convert it to something else. Which is probably why, most likely, I'm not even going to read the thing.

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