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Sent from my iPhone On 06/08/2010, at 16:02, Albert Abril <[email protected]> wrote: > PS: you might want to hire a top-notch web designer to turn the web2py > pages into something a bit trendier and sexier. Your web design skills > are clearly superior to mine, but sometimes you just gotta hand it to > the pros. > > I agree with that. > I'm disposed to make a donation if we could recollect to pay a designer to > make it sexier. > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:29 PM, olifante <[email protected]> wrote: > Web2py is getting more impressive by the day, and it's great that the > documentation is even better now. Unfortunately, the PDF on sale at > Lulu.com is apparently still the old 2nd edition. Is there any way to > get or buy a PDF of the current draft of the 3rd edition? > > The tech book industry is increasingly making draft versions of books > available for comment and for purchase as soon as possible, e.g. > > PragProg Beta Books: http://pragprog.com/frequently-asked-questions/beta-books > O'Reilly Open Feedback Publishing System: http://labs.oreilly.com/ofps.html > Manning Early Access Program: http://www.manning.com/about/meap.html > > Why not do the same with the web2py book, instead of forcing eager > buyers to wait until the final version of the 3rd edition is > finished? > > Also, many people now prefer to do all their technical reading in > ebook format, so making the book available in .mobi and .epub formats > as well as in pdf would be a smart move. > > Finally, even though I personally can see the value of paying $12.50 > for the current version of the web2py book (if it was available, which > is not the case), many people can't or won't. I really feel that the > fact that the PDF version of the book isn't available for free hampers > adoption of web2py. Good as web2py is, the truth is that Django > dominates in terms of users and mindshare in the Python community. If > you want to change that, giving the book away couldn't hurt. > > Web2py is obviously a labour of love, and I can't imagine that you get > more than meager earnings from the PDF sales at Lulu.com. Obviously, > everybody has to pay the bills, but you can probably earn more from > consulting work if web2py became more popular than you ever will from > the PDF sales. > > Thanks for all your hard work on web2py! > > Regards, > > --Tiago Henriques > > PS: you might want to hire a top-notch web designer to turn the web2py > pages into something a bit trendier and sexier. Your web design skills > are clearly superior to mine, but sometimes you just gotta hand it to > the pros. >
