Agreed, I don't have a problem buying digital books, but $39 is too much.
I suspect that if Henrik is already giving away a digital version, with the paid version he's targeting high-rollers motivated to buy one out of a sense of gratitude/largesse. So a high price tag sort of makes sense.
Re:Human JavaScript
by HenrikJoreteg on Thursday June 26, 2014 @05:36PM
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It seems a tad silly to argue about price when it's free, no? ;)
If you pick up a single tip that saves you an hour of effort you've paid for the book.
Yea I agree, since it's online for free I think it'd be better if they went the HumbleBundle route and allowed users to enter in a price.
Re:Human JavaScript
by thirdtruck on Thursday June 26, 2014 @09:29PM
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You can likely write it off for a tax deduction, at least, or ask your employer to expense it.
But I'm going to be "that-guy" and say $39 is too much just to get the kindle/PDF version. I buy a ton of programming books and I tend to only fork that much over for authoritative paper textbooks on particular subjects. Rarely digital versions. Otherwise I'm all with Patrick McKenzie on charging more.