"Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 11 11:43:52 PST 2015


On 11/11/2015 07:34 AM, Namal wrote:

 > So is there a way to buy the book on paper besides amazon?

Yes! I haven't announced it here yet but it's on the book's page:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

tl;dr:

Search for ISBN 978-0-692-52957-7, which should be available 
conveniently at most places. Better yet, ask your local bookstore to 
order it for you.

Long version:

Note: All of the following are a part of my presentation at Silicon 
Valley ACCU tonight (November 11, 2015):

   http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Association-of-C-C-Users/events/225125586/

I will be happy to meet other D people there! ;)

Confusingly, this book is now among those that have two ISBNs. :(

CreateSpace (an Amazon affiliate) ISBN is 978-1515074601. Unfortunately, 
it has almost zero chance of being sold at local bookstores because 
local bookstores don't like their business practices. Here are actual 
comments from a local bookstore:

"unable to carry your book in our store because your book is
published under an imprint of Amazon. CreateSpace is part of
Amazon."

"It is our company policy not to carry stock for titles that
Amazon has published as they are our competitors and we do not
agree with their business practices."

"your book is available from Ingram as not returnable & with a
short % for us"

Enter Ingram... Ingram is one of the largest book distributors that is 
well respected by book retailers. Ingram appears in the last excerpt 
above because, as I understand it, Ingram distributes any published 
book, self-published or not. (That's how the CreateSpace book is 
available to local bookstores, who will not carry it.)

So, I went all the trouble of getting the book published by Ingram's 
self-publishing platform as well. The following ISBN is already on 
internet search results:

   IngramSpark ISBN: 978-0-692-52957-7

If you can, please ask your local bookstores for that book or order it 
through them. You will not pay for customs or shipping and if the 
bookstore decides to stock it, more people will have a chance of running 
into it on the book aisles.

The catch: This book now has two list prices: $31.50 for the CreateSpace 
one, and $37.73 for the IngramSpark one. (These are US prices; the price 
varies at other countries.)

Publishing at IngramSpark is more costly both because they charge more 
and because the author has to set a sizable wholesale discount for the 
book to have a chance of being sold at local stores.

I had set the CreateSpace price to the very low $28.50 initially, but 
now I increased it so that the two ISBNs are at least in the thirties.

Having said all that about the price, most people can find the book for 
around $25.

 > Not that I don't like amazon it is just that there are always
 > problems ordering from outside the EU due to customs duties.

Actually, there shouldn't be a problem if you order it even in Europe 
because as I understand it, CreateSpace has two other printing houses: 
one in UK and one in somewhere in Central Europe. (Don't quote me on 
that! This is just a "feeling".)

I feel very bad for putting CreateSpace's name on this thread saying 
"they pay most royalty to the author". Unfortunately, it can be very 
inconvenient as well: You have to create an account with them, shipping 
times can be very long, shipping cost can be more than zero (what some 
Amazon members pay), etc. Additionally, as you say, a reader told me 
that they had to pay a huge customs fee because they just wanted me to 
get more royalty. (And we're talking $12 versus $6 royalty. Nobody can 
retire with that difference. :p)

And here is an update about the ebooks: I was able to embed the fonts in 
the EPUb and AZW3 versions. I will make the new versions available soon 
after fixing content problems: An expert emailed me saying that I've 
been spreading the misconception of categorizing languages as 
interpreted versus compiled. I am changing that part. Also, I will make 
sure that I make it clear that signed arithmetic behavior is undefined 
behavior.

I love publishing in the 21th century! :) I make a correction and 
everything gets updated almost immediately: the online version, the 
ebooks, and even the print version! (The print version needs a couple of 
days to be verified by a human. That's all.)

Ali



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