From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T03:25:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Second Edition of Agile Web Development with Rails

Yeah ... besides, the Gerbil Union doesn't have a contract with Amazon.

My order of priority for buying books is:

1. Powell's here in Portland if they have it in stock.
2. The original publisher if they ship -- which in this case would be
Dave Thomas. :)
3. Search addall.com for the best price ... or if it's out of print,
this becomes #2.
4. Amazon.

To the poster who wondered whether to get PDF only or Combo ... I
started out buying the combos but have switched to PDF only. My reasoning:

1. For a beta, at least, there is something like a three to six month
lead time. By the time the book is actually in print, I will or should
have everything in it committed to memory/code/internalized.

2. Given a laptop, PDFs are as portable as a paper book. I have several
hundred PDFs, including just about everything Pragmatic has published, a
bunch of queuing theory papers and other miscellaneous "light reading"
on my laptop. It's close to a gigabyte zipped, and is the largest single
item in my home directory.

I can't even begin to estimate what all of that works out to in pages or
pounds or carloads. I wish *everybody* would publish on PDFs -- I think
the DRM stuff can be worked out to the authors', publishers' and
readers' satisfaction.

3. There's also the emotional and probably bogus bit about saving trees.
I heat my home in the winter with junk mail. :)

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On May 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David Pollak wrote:
>
>> Dave gets my business because I'm buying his book.
>
> Dave gets a lot more of that "business" from those that buy directly
> from Dave.  ;)
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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