John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released

Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by jeresig on Monday December 31, 2012 @07:19PM (#4991428)

Sorry for the delay in announcing it - I was waiting for the book to physically arrive in my hands, which it hasn't done so, yet. (I have a copy pre-ordered with Amazon and since that's the way most people will be receiving the acquiring the book, I imagine, I wanted to make sure it was actually, physically, being distributed before I announced it.)

I plan on writing up a full blog post once I have my copy of the book.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by 8ig8 on Monday December 31, 2012 @09:41PM (#4991691)

John: Sorry, I just fat-fingered a down vote that was supposed to be an up vote. Thanks for checking in. I'm looking forward to the book myself.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by arunoda on Monday December 31, 2012 @11:07PM (#4991831)

Any plans for a kindle version? As I lives in an asian country (Sri Lanka) kindle is best and only way to access amazon book store :)

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by bchen on Monday December 31, 2012 @11:52PM (#4991901)

I assume you mean having the book physically shipped to Sri Lanka is not feasible/possible. Consider buying the ebook from Manning directly [0]. They do offer the ebook in Kindle (mobi) format.

[0]: http://manning.com/resig/

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by barking on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:21AM (#4992262)

Once there's a pdf or other ebook available it'll be pirated. How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand. The Lazarus (object pascal ide) book is only available in a physical book format for this reason.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by spjwebster on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:42AM (#4992285)

It may well be pirated regardless:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

In another life I wrote technical books, which at the time were only available in physical formats. That didn't stop electronic versions of the more popular books from appearing on usenet.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by barking on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @07:20AM (#4992482)

That's a good read. It's hard to understand the motivation of someone who's prepared to put in that many hours pirating a single book. It's seems a bit pathetic

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by Semaphor on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @06:12AM (#4992391)

> How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.

Because the people downloading it are not necessarily the same people who'd have bought it otherwise.

Plus exposure. I pirate a lot of stuff. At the same time I buy more books and music than anyone else I know.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by arunoda on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @12:05AM (#4991921)

Yes. Shipping to Sri Lanka is harder or takes too much time. Thanks. I will go for the manning site. It works

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