My book is out -- Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

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Sorry, but I have no idea.

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Curt H. wrote:

I can’t answer you on the pricing – I had nothing to do with that,

Is there a way to purchase both the book and pdf in a discounted bundle
like the pragmatic books? Or if the pdf is available at a discounted
rate once the book is purchased?

Thanks,
-Brian

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On 8/25/06, Greg D. [email protected] wrote:

$20 does seem pretty high for a book with less than 200 pages.
Especially since I just picked up Ruby Cookbook brand new from the
used section on Amazon for $31 including shipping, and it’s nearly 900
pages.

More pages doesn’t necessarily mean more value. Some books are meant
to be the size of dictionaries (ruby cookbook) - others aren’t.

The pragmatics’ books are often pretty short (ie Ship It, Pragmatic
Automate, _Practices of an Agile Developer are all under 300 pages
IIRC), and yet they are almost always worth the $35 direct or ~$20
from Amazon.

  • rob
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On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:17 pm, Lyle J. wrote:

On 8/26/06, Rob S. [email protected] wrote:

More pages doesn’t necessarily mean more value.

Exactly. While it’s well known that one can, for example, measure the
productivity of a programmer by the number of lines of codes that he
generates per hour, one cannot similarly measure the quality of a book
by its page count.

I’m not even sure you can measure a programmer by lines of code per
night.
Think of how many lines a person could consume doing this the wrong way:

class Foo
attr_accessor :my_instance_var
end

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On 8/26/06, Rob S. [email protected] wrote:

More pages doesn’t necessarily mean more value.

Exactly. While it’s well known that one can, for example, measure the
productivity of a programmer by the number of lines of codes that he
generates per hour, one cannot similarly measure the quality of a book
by its page count.