"Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 09/07/2015 08:54 PM, lobo wrote:

 > it's so much nicer to read it in print than PDF.

Thank you all, for your kind words!

Strange, but perhaps because I was raised with real books, I completely 
agree that physical books feel better. :)

Let me use this opportunity to give a short report.

As of now, in the three weeks that the book has been available, there 
were 61 copies sold. This means that almost one third of my out of 
pocket expenses have been covered at this time. Obviously, it will take 
much longer to cover the remaining amount. If you are curious, the 
expense was for the tool that I used for converting from HTML to PDF 
(Prince XML), for the cover art and design, for copies that I bought 
myself to give away (marketing cost).

I have just completed submitting the book at IngramSpark as well. This 
will give the book a chance to appear on book shelves, which I find 
important because I think seeing and touching a book has an effect on 
anybody visiting a book shop.

Interestingly, the IngramSpark edition has a separate ISBN, less number 
of pages, and has a different price. For example, although the list 
price of the currently available book is $28.50, the IngramSpark edition 
will cost $33.33. This is to be able to give brick-and-mortar 
booksellers sufficient discount so that the book is interesting to them 
to put on their shelves. To me, the difference in price covers the 
shipping cost and eliminates any shipment waits. You go to the store and 
get the book! It feels more natural. :)

This edition will have 682 pages as opposed to the 798 pages of the 
current book. However, the content is the same. The difference comes 
from slightly smaller font (9.75pt versus 10pt), less margins, and 
inline curly brackets (aka Egyptian brackets) throughout. I have already 
ordered a proof copy...

Anyway, thanks again,
Ali