You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
> You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook > as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the > first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, > other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be > watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
"Leonard Richardson" <leonard.richard...@gmail.com> writes: > You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook > as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the > The O'Reilly page: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/
That's awesome.
I've already bought it. O'Reilly might check out their download page, though - it comes through nice and automatically - downloaded as a file named 'Ruby' - no extension - and without any means for the browser to set the file type (on a mac where the file type may be determined other than through the extension).
At a minimum, they need to change the filename.
The file itself is perfectly fine. I added the .pdf extension and it opens right up in Preview.
Thanks for getting them to do this. The PDF format will make my life much easier. It's a hell of a lot lighter to carry around than the dead tree version, even if it's harder to read on the subway.
Leonard Richardson wrote: > You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook > as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the > first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, > other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be > watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
Brilliant! Within 5 minutes of reading the above, I had it on my laptop. Now I can lend my paper copy to colleagues to tease them over to the side of goodness and light.... :o)
Thanks very much.
cheers,
paulv
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Leonard Richardson wrote: > You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook > as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the > first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, > other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be > watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
> Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I guess Bitching and Whining does work ;)
> Leonard Richardson wrote: >> You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook >> as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the >> first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, >> other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be >> watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
> On 2006-08-10 08:51:14 +0200, Jim Morris <m...@e4net.com> said:
> > Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I guess Bitching and Whining does work ;)
> > Leonard Richardson wrote: > >> You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook > >> as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the > >> first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well, > >> other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be > >> watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.
> On 8/10/06, Leonard Richardson <leonard.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just to mention little fact. I downloaded the source code and all > > > the files are extensionless. > > > Meaning no .rb
Thanks for the pointer. I had already ordered it from Amazon, but the free shipping option means it won't arrive for another couple of weeks. I'll be happy with my PDF version until then.
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