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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by atourino on Monday November 22, 2010 @08:58AM (#1929765)
It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal.

Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.

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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by rdhyee on Monday November 22, 2010 @09:46AM (#1929913)
The sale is exciting to those of us who want to buy the ebooks, which are not available from Amazon. (I'm thinking about now buying Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages on Friday.)
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by atourino on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:26PM (#1931166)
Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by kazuya on Monday November 22, 2010 @01:42PM (#1930824)
I would agree with you if those on Amazon have DRM-free ebook version.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by atourino on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:25PM (#1931161)
Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by pietrofmaggi on Monday November 22, 2010 @08:25AM (#1929681)
"We’re offering 40% off everything in the store—books, PDFs, and screencasts. There are a couple of exceptions, including The Pragmatic Programmer book itself (ironically, we don’t publish it), and the Programming Ruby 1.9 which is already on its anniversary sale."
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by kazuya on Monday November 22, 2010 @01:50PM (#1930856)
Also note:

  the coupon is valid from 00:01PST to 23:59PST on Friday,
  November 26th. (PST is 8 hours behind GMT)
That is, it's almost Saturday for me in GMT+9.

And interestingly it's starting from 00:01, not from 00:00.

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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by jim_h on Monday November 22, 2010 @08:40AM (#1929721)
Their servers must be getting hammered now. Even pragprog.com is a bit slow.

It's going to be interesting on Black Friday if this is how responsive it is just for the announcement.

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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by bnycum on Monday November 22, 2010 @09:17AM (#1929806)
Great, I've already bought 3 PragProg books this month alone. Don't know how I can resist the temptation from buying more. PragProg is probably my favorite publisher, I really enjoy their books.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by saw on Monday November 22, 2010 @10:20AM (#1930031)
Does anyone have a "best of" list or a list of their favorite books from Pragmatic Bookshelf?
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by uxp on Monday November 22, 2010 @11:02AM (#1930159)
To be honest, their entire catalog belongs in my "best of" pile.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by SerpentJoe on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:21PM (#1931148)
Pragmatic Thinking And Learning is outstanding. I killed at least one highlighter on the first read. It's a permanent bonus to your first derivative. In fact, thanks for reminding me it's time for a re-read.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by ukdm on Monday November 22, 2010 @08:34AM (#1929703)
That link didn't work for me, this did though [linked removed] thanks pietrofmaggi
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by pietrofmaggi on Monday November 22, 2010 @08:38AM (#1929716)
This link is about the 2009 edition of the promotion, now it's a different coupon code and it works only for friday 26 of november.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by DannoHung on Monday November 22, 2010 @11:28AM (#1930293)
Can you get a discount on the beta books?
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by gauthr on Monday November 22, 2010 @11:37AM (#1930337)
I've received discounts on beta books in other PragProg sales.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by metageek on Monday November 22, 2010 @02:13PM (#1930931)
No, that's one of the exceptions called out.
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Re:[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration On... by DannoHung on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:28PM (#1931174)
It says "Beta on paper", but I meant to ask about Beta eBooks, sorry. The HTML5+CSS3 one looks interesting, for example.
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