From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T04:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] Second Edition of Agile Web Development with Rails

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I will definitely buy the new edition.  It would be nice to offer a
discount for those of us with the dead tree version 1 edition.

Charlie Bowman
www.recentrambles.com

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 03:48 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:

> On May 2, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Peter C. Verhage 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 Never bought a book that was outdated  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...
> 
> 
> Well, to be fair, it wasn't us that outdated it, but the changes to  
> Rails. We could have kept the first edition as it was.
> 
> The decision to create a second edition was an incredibly hard one:  
> it's a commitment to many, many months of effort to produce. During  
> that time, the availability of a second edition beta will be hurting  
> sales of the first edition paper book that's still out there. As a  
> business decision, it's risky at best.
> 
> But, we're proud of that book, and we want to make sure it stays  
> useful. Creating the second edition seemed the best way to do that.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 



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