This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

Rory McGuire rmcguire at neonova.co.za
Tue Jun 22 23:59:52 PDT 2010


On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:23:55 +0200, Mike James <foo at bar.com> wrote:

> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
> news:hvr503$287g$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2010-06-22 14:51, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote:
>>>>> Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good.  
>>>>> I
>>>>> like
>>>>> the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for all the hard work Andrei.
>>>>>
>>>>> -=mike=-
>>>>>
>>>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>>>> news:hu3hq6$2f04$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>> Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of
>>>>>> TDPL
>>>>>> will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still
>>>>>> appears on the back cover and the spine.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes that  
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> become collector's editions. Preorder now to be among the first 1000
>>>>>> readers who get the authorless TDPL edition.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrei
>>>>
>>>> What happened to the nice looking PDF file we saw previews on, that  
>>>> one
>>>> with syntax highlighting and a green background in the code example?
>>>
>>> That's the iPad edition :o).
>>>
>>> Now seriously, what happens is that what you see is exactly what went  
>>> to
>>> the printer. I can configure colors for a color edition, but for now  
>>> the
>>> publisher asked me for black and white.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> That's too bad. I can understand that the publisher want it in black and
>> withe but the PDF, it would have been nice to the PDF in color.
>>
>> --
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>
> Maybe the color PDF will be another collectors item ;-)
>
> -=mike=-
>
>


we only get 45 days free access to the download, so I hope they allow a  
colour version soon.

-Rory


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