From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T03:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] Second Edition of Agile Web Development with Rails

On 5/2/06, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Peter C. Verhage <peter@no-nonsense.org> wrote:
> > Greg Donald wrote:
> > > No love for us first edition buyers, pre- April 1st ?
> >
> > Yeah that would be nice. Never bought a book that was outdated within a
> > year...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
>
> I understand that there is no reasonable expectation for a discount
> against the dead tree edition. Additionally, I can see why you would
> not necessarily want to provide free pdf upgrades. I want Dave to
> continue developing the book and have no problem paying for the
> privilege. Of course it may be good business to offer a discount on
> the pdf for repeat combo purchasers :-)
>
> pth
>
>

I own The Pragmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby, AWDWR #1, Rails
Recipes, and the Subversion book.  I imagine I'm not alone in having
multiple PP books.

The PP guys can certainly choose to do whatever they want here, but
considering that a lot of their customers probably buy several books
from them, it would be nice to get some kind of discount on the
upgrade.

Also I want to point out that I'm not complaining about how they do
business at all - the beta books program is brilliant, and I
(obviously) love PP as authors and as a publisher enough to give them
my $$.

Pat