Re: electronic copy of "Programming in Lua, Second Edition" textbook on the net

[Frans Oilinki <moilinki@...>]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 16:44, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:30, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev <malkia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I actually want to buy the book (electronic PDF copy).
>>
>> I'm in US - is Feisty Duck the only store that sells it?
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> I'm surprised that there is no Kindle edition on Amazon.
>
> Alexander.

Hello Alexander,

>From the product description page: "Digital format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle
(Mobi)". I am curious - why would you want to buy the book from Amazon
instead of directly from the publisher?

1. In Feisty Duck web site
(https://www.feistyduck.com/services/digital-publishing/index.html)
they say 75% of the profit goes to the author (or original
publisher?), which I guess is more generous than Amazon (please
correct me if I am wrong here).

2. I cannot find the information and did not make the purchase (yet)
to tell by experience, but if Feisty Duck gives you all the three
formats with the purchase without DRM applied (like O'Reilly does for
many of their eBooks), then this offer seems superior to what Amazon
will give you (DRM, locked to use Amazon Kindle reader / app).

The only downside is if you do not like your name printed in the book
(if the book is received by Feisty Duck in DocBook format)?

Frans




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>> On 7/31/11 7:10 PM, Will Metcalf wrote:
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>>>> and if there was an electronic version on sale, I would long
>>>> have bought it.
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>>> You can buy an electronic copy of this book.
>>>
>>> http://store.feistyduck.com/products/programming-in-lua
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Will
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>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Marc Balmer<marc@msys.ch>  wrote:
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>>>> Am 18.07.11 15:04, schrieb Vadim Peretokin:
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>>>>> That's rather distasteful.
>>>>
>>>> This is a sidenote only.
>>>>
>>>> Since many of you are coming to Switzerland later this year, let me
>>>> explain you an interesting facet of Swiss law.  In Switzerland,
>>>> downloads are legal.  We can legally download movies, musics, or in this
>>>> case books, that someone puts online.  It does not matter if the
>>>> publication itself was legal.  The pure act of downloading a copyrighted
>>>> work is legal here.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, publishing of such work is prohibited.  But we are allowed to
>>>> shared content of any matter with friends and family.
>>>>
>>>> What is the conclusion?  I have now legally obtained an electronic copy
>>>> of a book I already bought four or five times in print (for myself, my
>>>> company, for friends etc.) and I admit that this comes in as a handy
>>>> reference for my personal use.  I have no intent to circulate this file,
>>>> of course, and if there was an electronic version on sale, I would long
>>>> have bought it.
>>>>
>>>> So, distasteful or not, in some legislations, downloading the file in
>>>> question is perfectly legal.
>>>>
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