"Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 28 11:51:03 PDT 2015


On 10/28/2015 11:46 AM, cym13 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 08:01:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Although the book will always be free[1], many of you have expressed a
>> need to pay without having to buy the paper version.
>
> It's a bit late now but I like what Cory Doctorow (a writter who
> publishes mainly books under Creative Common license) does: the epub/pdf
> version is free but if you want to participate without buying the paper
> version you can buy a book that will be given to a library (of your
> choice if you express one) instead. This allows participation as well as
> diffusion.
>
> As this is not a book of fiction it may be suited to fewer libraries but
> I still think this is a concept worth sharing.

Interesting. That is almost the same as what I said to someone who 
wanted to contribute but did not want the paper book. I said "buy the 
paper book and give it to someone you know." :)

Ali



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