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Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by xinsight »

peterarmstrong wrote: post #58
xinsight wrote: post #29

fyi - Trying to read the epub file in ibooks and i get this error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty error on line 1 at column 1: Encoding error Update: PDF works, but requires a lot of scrolling on the iphone. Also, it's a 40 page "book".

Hi, We'll look into this issue. Which generation iPad do you have? All Leanpub books include free lifetime updates, so when it's resolved you'll have a free update. (You also get free updates if the author updates the book for any reason, like adding new content, etc. We believe in self-publishing in-progress ebooks, so that you can iterate on your book like you would a startup. We call this idea lean publishing.) Al…

It's actually an iPhone 4S. I just updated to iBooks 2.0.1 and it works! Thanks for the follow up.

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by pja »

peterarmstrong wrote: post #47
mruff wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was happy to pay the asking price if not more - stopped as soon as I had to use PayPal - dragged the slider to zero.

As a Leanpub co-founder, can you let me know which of the following would have worked for you: a) Google Checkout b) Amazon Checkout c) Credit card (via Stripe or similar)

Google Checkout then Amazon payments for me, but either would be fine.

Like a lot of people I'm vaguely uncomfortable with giving credit card details to companies I haven't heard of before & whilst I have a Paypal ID, I only use it for those places insist on Paypal (eBay mainly), so I can never remember the password and have to look it up. (Yeah, yeah, KeePass et al, I know, I'll get round to it at some point...) I use Amazon and Google often enough that logging in to them in order to make a payment isn't such a hurdle.

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by kentosi »

I just downloaded this book for free because I was suspicious of the contents and thought it'd be another airy book filled with old quotes and obvious but encouraging sentences.

Now that I've read the first 3 pages I want to pay for it. Is there a way of doing this from the site itself, or do I need to "re-buy" the book?

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by raganwald »

fmx wrote: post #78
pavel_lishin wrote: post #45

> (we won't spam you, we promise) It's a nice touch, but honestly, it just reminds me to use a wildcard.

It's great that Leanpub makes it so easy to register, but it would be even better if you didn't have to. I don't want to provide my email address to download a file. I used a disposable one and I'm sure some others did, too. That's just going to add (a tiny bit of) work for the Leanpub email server and make their stats look a little better than they really are. Also, the site creating a "profile" for me when all I di…

Part of the rationale is that this is how you can access updates: I notify my readers when I add a new essay to the book through leanpub: I don't see your address or any other info, but leanpub forwards my message to the book's readers as an email.

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by SonicSoul »

SonicSoul wrote: post #39
billpatrianakos wrote: post #2

I feel guilty. I just got the book for free and I feel like I need to justify it. I really respect Raganwald and I would love to pay and he deserves it. I took it free because the honest truth is that business is really, supremely bad right now. I have a total of $60 in the bank and a few grand in bills due plus some other awful things. I justify (maybe wrongly) downloading it free by assuming the book will help me a…

I have not heard about Roganwald until this thread, and feel this is a great opportunity to learn about him. I will check out the book for free, and if it offers value for me (teach me stuff i did not already know), i will happily go back and make a contribution.

sweet! the best thing about this book is that it led me to homoiconic! https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic so much goodness there.

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by golden_apples »

rhnoble wrote: post #31
thudfactor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fully intended to take it for free, but I paid for the book because the asking price is under my impulse-purchase threshold. Writing a book is such a time-consuming and difficult process $5 seems like a tip. I by no means think that means everyone else needs to pay something for the book -- but I'm in a position to pay $5 today, and the book looks interesting, so it's worth the charge.

Same here. I'll pay $5 for almost anything, and I'm certain that if it's half way decent I'll get a lot more than $5 worth of value out of it.

I downloaded it for free only because I saw the link while sitting in bed and didn't feel like looking for my credit card. I appreciated that the followup email had info about paying for the book by buying another of raganwald's books.

Re: Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

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Post by emmelaich »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #45

> (we won't spam you, we promise) It's a nice touch, but honestly, it just reminds me to use a wildcard.

Not only did I not mind giving my email address to a reputable companly, I wish they made it easier to sign up for news about similar books, not just updates/news about this one.
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