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Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by fogus on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:52AM (#5374611)
Hi all, one of the authors here. If you'd like to buy the early access edition then Manning has a 50% off deal today with code dotd0314tw. You have to order it through their website, that can be accessed via http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy

even better apparently is the code joc2elaunch50 allowing discounts for a bunch of books

Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by tom_b on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:58AM (#5375762)
Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning.

fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying softly in my cubicle).

Maybe at lambda jam you or David Nolen will do a workshop on logic programming. Who do I bribe to make this happen?

Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by siavosh on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:28AM (#5375563)
Any additional special deals for folks who own the first edition? Maybe for just the diff ;)
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by orangethirty on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:55AM (#5374922)
May you provide some insight into the contents of the book?
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by lucian1900 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:15AM (#5374713)
Is the ebook version DRM-free from Manning? Their buy page isn't clear.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by tomku on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:29AM (#5374782)
It's DRM-free, but visibly tagged with your name and email address on each page like other Manning ebooks.

Edit: This applies to the PDF version, the ePub and Mobi just put your name in the metadata, I believe.

Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by fogus on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:18AM (#5374728)
As far as I understand the pre-release version is a regular PDF. I am unsure about the formats available when the book is complete, but I do not think that they were DRM'd in the first edition.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by juskrey on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:16AM (#5374720)
Yes, it is DRM-free, just uploaded to my kindle.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by xaro on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:38AM (#5374830)
Does it look fine in a Kindle with E-ink?
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by tomku on Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:33AM (#5375174)
I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwed up, but that's the nature of reflowed text and multiple target devices.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by brown9-2 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @02:43PM (#5376865)
You'll get an .epub when the final book is out.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by st3fan on Thursday March 14, 2013 @03:32PM (#5377127)
What is new? I have the first edition .. what will you change?
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by jakubholynet on Friday March 15, 2013 @04:11AM (#5379630)
Some of the new stuff is mentioned at http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd - - ClojureScript - more on "thinking" techniques, f.ex. unification, logic programming, constraint solving, declarative programming - Data-orientation: "dive deeply into viewing applications (and even code itself) through a data-centric lens"
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by juskrey on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:04AM (#5374659)
apparently they have some automatic coupons, "dotd0314" worked for me, and they have it every day.. (no-brainer numbers)
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by fogus on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:15AM (#5374719)
We realize that we're not about to get rich off of this book, so we'd prefer that the coupons disseminate far and wide. :-)
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by juskrey on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:22AM (#5374743)
Well, >30$ book prices usually direct me to search reading elsewhere, books under 20$ usually get to my pocket in 5 seconds without hesitating. Glad to be your early reader.
Re:The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access by xaritas on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:29AM (#5375565)
Hi everybody! I'm a, uh, book junkie too. It's been seven days since I last bought. I used to keep myself strung out on Manning Deal of the Day emails to keep the buzz from the last purchase going. But then I discovered that O'Reilly's Safari books online also has Manning... and No Starch Press (the Learn You a Haskell/Erlang guys) in addition to several historically terrible publishers. But with O'Reilly, Manning and No Starch I haven't felt the need to buy. Except for Two Scoops of Django, dammit.

Downsides: no early access (it seems) and no physical books, which I love. But seriously, if you have a habit, it seems like a good deal. I just signed up for the 10 day trial and I'm loving it so far.

Disclaimer: No disclaimer, just a happy habitual book buyer.