"Programming in D" book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats

[Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 10:34:24 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Main page:
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>   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/
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> 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats:
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> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub
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> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi
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> I used 'calibre' to generate those "alpha" quality books. I 
> chose epub and mobi just because I thought that they are the 
> most common formats. Just let me know if you need another 
> format or simply use 'calibre' or another tool yourself. :)
>
>
> 2) There has been a lot of work to make the book ready for its 
> first print edition. (I will spare you the details of countless 
> hours of extra work that went into this "eternal final step".)
>
> The PDF version finally looks a lot like a real book:
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> * There is a Table of Contents section
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> * There is an Index section
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> * The internal links work
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> 3) There are two new chapters:
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> * Lvalues and Rvalues
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> * Nested Functions, Structs, and Classes
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> 4) There are the following notable additions to existing 
> chapters:
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> * 'pragma' is added to the Templates chapter
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> * Special keywords are added to the Templates chapter 
> (__FILE__, __LINE__, etc.)
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> * Contract inheritance is added to the 'Contract Programming 
> for Structs and Classes' chapter
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> * The .offsetof property and the 'align' atribute are added to 
> the 'Memory Management' chapter
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> 5) I am grateful to Andrej Mitrović, Steven Schveighoffer, and 
> Luís Marques, who accepted to edit the book. However, they are 
> through only less than 10% of the book so far. As always, 
> current or future mistakes are mine. :)
>
> Ali

Well done, Ali - I will buy the ePub once the book is done.

One suggestion: if you can, do what Ivan Ristic does with his 
SSL/TLS books (https://www.feistyduck.com). Basically, people who 
buy his books have unlimited access to book updates. Ivan is 
sending information about book updates whenever there is 
something new, so we readers can go back to the website and grab 
the latest version of the book.

I think this is a much better approach than book editions, as 
they may appear years after each other... Sure, it is more 
complicated, but I think it pays off, and I do not mind book 
being little bit more expensive if I can access updated version 
of it.

Cheers!