In article <a81c2f2d0910312221p526adb5cg56a0b88516597...@mail.gmail.com>, raphael() <raphael.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' & I was wondering if someone > could point me to the book "Perl Study Guide", > also called "Learning Perl Student Workbook". It's a companion book to > "Learning Perl" but is not available in my country. > > I was hoping if someone could give me a link to a soft copy (an ebook). I'll try to respond to all of the messages in the thread with just this one message. If, in the end, you cannot get your hands on a copy of the book for whatever reason, please contact me personally and we'll see what we can work out. If I have to buy a box of them and ship them myself, it wouldn't be the first time I've done that. That assumes that O'Reilly has any for me to buy, though. The Learning Perl Student Workbook, which I've also called the Learning Perl Study Guide, is a companion booklet to Learning Perl, 4th Edition. It has several extra exercises for each chapter, along with detailed answers for each. O'Reilly never meant the booklet to be on the market. It was part of a program to bundle it with Learning Perl through another publisher who supplied textbooks to schools. The school would buy the bundle as a value-added, shrinkwrapped single thing. That's why it isn't in the normal Perl catalog and doesn't show up on my author page. Somehow, Amazon got their hands on a bunch of them. I don't know how, but I expect a lot of them leaked out through a distributor. That other publisher never had them in their catalog either, and I could never find out how to buy that bundle. I expect that the sales people never pushed it, for whatever reason. My guess, which is complete speculation, is the someone needed floor space in a warehouse so boxes of my booklet got dumped on a distributor that Amazon uses. If that's the case, I'm guessing that O'Reilly doesn't have any copies which is why they don't sell them. I'll try to verify that this week though. The way I wrote the booklet is also odd. It was a work-for-hire, which is not usual. That means I have no rights to the content, I get no royalties, and so on. It's not a normal book in the sense that the publisher sells it and distributes money. My name is on the cover, but I'm not really connected to it like I am with any of my other O'Reilly books. You don't see it on my O'Reilly author page, for instance. I'm also the sole writer of the book, so bugging Randal, as some people have suggested, won't help much. He'd be guessing as much as I am. I'm finishing another book this month, and after that a new edition of a Learning Perl Student Workbook is on my list of things to write. Now, if anyone finds a digital copy, please let me know. I want one too since I seemed to have misplaced the original sources. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
