This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Mon Jul 19 05:34:03 PDT 2010


On 13/07/2010 12:13, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 21:14, Rory McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>> You got yours already? That's odd.
>>> Hum, I checked the InformIT again, search for TDPL, and there are two
>>> "books" listed, the roughs cuts, and final one. That's odd, only the
>>> final one should appear. Do you know which one you purchased, are you
>>> sure it was the rough cuts?
>>>
>>
>> Okay it wasn't rough cuts, I went to andre's site which used to show
>> a huge picture of his kid with the book and clicked on a link to informit
>> from there, that page seems to have changed but here the link to
>> informit:
>> http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321635361
>>
>> I clicked on the Buy button next to the Book. Was shipped within 24
>> hours, got it
>> within 7 days or so and I'm in South Africa (Amazon says it takes a
>> month to deliver).
>
> Ah, that explains it. Anyways I contacted InformIT/SafariBooks support,
> and they sorted it out, I now have the final version listed in my
> account, and they said the print book has been ordered. Dunno when it
> will arrive, but it should be too late from now.
> (In any case I'm not in any particular hurry to read it, not that I'm
> not interested, its just that I'm quite busy, and particularly I'm still
> in the middle of reading two other books :p ).
>
>

Ok, just got mine. Not a "collectors edition", although it seems at the 
moment this version is the rarer one :P
Anyways, now I "just" need to find the time to read the book... :o

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer


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