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Update on my comments regarding the PDF from O’Reilly Media. I have just spoken to them by telephone and been advised that they do not have the second edition, nor were they aware that it had been published. So, my advice remains: do NOT pay for and download any of the electronic formats of this publication from Gareth’s link until someone on here confirms that it has been updated to the new edition. I have been advised that O’Reilly are looking into the matter and will email me in due course.
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I will post an update here as soon as I have one. If that’s the First Edition, Second Printing (if you can have such a thing with an electronic book!) then that could explain it – in which case I heartily apologise to anyone I’ve inadvertently misled.
To my knowledge, though, there’s only the sashless cover from the first edition and the sash cover from the second. Unless the publisher made a new cover without telling me, which is entirely possible.However, I’d certainly second Mark’s advice not to buy the book from O’Reilly until things are clarified – and apologies again if I was mistaken. (Sadly, there’s no facility here to edit comments, or I’d remove my link!)ukscone: removed the link for you. Just to be clear, only Amazon.co.uk is currently offering the Second Coming, and only in paperback, not Kindle format (yet?). Apparently, there’s no room for the e-book on Amazon Web Services cloud servers, or it’s just too difficult to upload the file.
Maybe they’re too busy trying to get their hijacked drone prototypes back which I’m convinced are a ploy to get their competitors to waste their time trying to do the same ridiculous thing, that Amazon has no real intention of developing, let alone deploying. Let’s just say that Amazon sucks in general, and particularly so in this case. Any company deserves to be dumped upon that seriously believes that it can deliver 85% of its millions of products via autonomous drones and is sinking resources into a PR campaign hawking it. They should be making real, actual, existing, tangible products like Eben’s and Gordon’s book available to the millions of prospective customers who could really make use of it (particularly students and teachers).The fact that their business practices of doing everything they can to put small competitors, and even their own customers, out of business while dodging taxes is an even bigger reason. I can’t believe anyone has invested in that company either, since they’ve never really returned much (other than to its own executives) as they slice margins ever thinner.There, is that enough light for you on what Amazon is really all about?. The content of issue one was excellent – but nigh on impossible to read because of the really poor contrast between the text and the page.Has this been improved in the second edition? If not, I’ll be skupping this release and waiting for an issue with decent contrast, where I don’t need a 3KW floodlamp and a x10 magnifying lens to be able to read it!Of course – it may well just be ‘my’ eyes – but the font and ink used certainly didn’t help:-(Maybe I need to get an eBook version!Cheers,Niall (aka The Blind One).
I purchased the eBook, definitely 2nd edition, directly from Wiley’s site for 10 USD. (Saw they also had it for Google Play, but I don’t live in that world, so I skipped it.)It required that I obtain a DRM-protected PDF using the Adobe Digital Editions application (free) on my Mac, which is also a reader. The PDF gets downloaded to the Digital Editions folder of the Documents folder.I wanted to read it on my iPad, and the solution for that is the (free) Bluefire Reader app. You can transfer the PDF using Dropbox or another cloud storage service (I used CrashPlan), by choosing “Open in Bluefire Reader” in the app. It asks you to sign in to your Digital Editions account, and then you’re good to go.Comments are closed.