I’ve bought a few books in PDF format from the Pragmatic Bookshelf (to go with the massive pile of dead-tree books I purchased from them) and I have to admit that I started off purchasing items only because I wanted early access rather than because I thought that PDF books were a good idea. That’s changed.
As the books have been updated over time, new versions have been made available to me and that’s something I really like. Today I got a notification that a new version of Travis Swicegood’s excellent Pragmatic Version Control using Git has been made available to me. I love these little presents, they’re wonderful little presents that cheer me up every time.
The thing that’s important and different about what the Prag Prog peeps do is that this isn’t just a final version of a Beta Book, it is a new version of a book that’s already in print. I purchased a book from Manning’s early access programme and as soon as the book went to print I lost the ability to download the PDF. I’m never buying another book like that from Manning.
With Manning I felt screwed, with the Pragmatic Programmers I feel like I’ve got more than I’m due.
Good job guys!
May 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Glad you dig the updates. Working with Pragmatic has been great as an author and a reader.