Ridiculous Price of Squeak Books (was Re: Computerchannel.de: Squeak 3.0 tested)

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sun Oct 7 10:32:35 UTC 2001


http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/drafts/WholeBook.pdf
This looks like a interesting read too :-)

Karl

Fleeberz at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 2001-10-01 11:43:53 AM, guzdial at cc.gatech.edu writes:
> 
> >For what it's worth, the chapters at
> >http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook are essentially the same (minus
> >formatting and some detail editing by Prentice-Hall's editors) as the
> >NuBlue book.  The bound book is lovely (yay, Ian!) and is worth its
> >price, in my opinion, but the CONTENT is available without a
> >"ridiculous price."  Noel Rappin's chapter is a fine intro to Squeak.
> 
> Not knocking your books, Mark (nor those of other authors here). Really! And
> I've certainly spent "vast fortunes" on books before - one usually gets what
> one pays for, unless its some kind of "fad" you-can-only-learn-it-from-me,
> you-must-have-it-to-survive kind of thing; thankfully, these are rare.
> Paradoxically, when trying to learn something, I absorb less from direct
> radiation than I do from indirect scattering off dead trees; perhaps you
> yourself have considered the notion of "curling up with a good book."
> 
> Thank you for the link; I have that stuff and must force myself to try to
> read more of it some time. Now if I had a decent printer or second monitor...
> I'd retroactively spend the money for either of those and buy the book(s)! ;^)
> 
> Cheers,
> Flee
> 
> P.S. The price is NOT ridiculous, it just makes the book unavailable to some.




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