Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Backbone.js on Rails'

Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by nestlequ1k on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @05:47AM (#3215043)

I've never seen a $50 ebook before. Seems a bit excessive. Whatever, I'll pass or wait till they eventually come to their senses and offer it for $19

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by raganwald on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:37AM (#3215865)

> wait till they eventually come to their senses and offer it for $19

If they eventually offer it for $19, it could be they’ve come to their senses. Another possibility is that it’s good old-fashioned price discrimination: You offer it for $49, and sell as many as you can to those who can afford it.

When $49 sales dry up, drop the price and now a whole new group of customers—like you—buy it. If you had offered it at $19 to begin with, you’d have left money on the table from all the people who would have paid $49 but got it for $19.

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by thibaut_barrere on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:04AM (#3215457)

It's clearly targeted at people who bill more than $100/hour and who are completely willing to pay a premium for that.

I bought it and I can tell you they made a killing (I can see how many people bought it as they invite people to a private github repo).

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by nestlequ1k on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:49AM (#3215607)

That's great, but it seems to me like a stupid approach. 1% of rails devs make 100+ an hour. So they are limiting their target market.

But whatever I'm sure they're making money and are happy.

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by lobo_tuerto on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @05:51AM (#3215048)

Yeah the price is a bit excessive, and is not even a finished book yet.

So you pay for the knowledge you want now a premium fee, but you have to wait a couple of months to have it all?

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by irahul on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @06:48AM (#3215144)

What are you two people talking about? The url links to github page for the backbone-on-rails.

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by Jgrubb on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:13AM (#3215182)

There's a link to a Thoughtbot page in the Readme that is pushing a $49 eBook.

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Re:Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Back... by presty on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:14AM (#3215186)

probably about this: http://workshops.thoughtbot.com/backbone-js-on-rails

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