[fogus]

Hi all, one of the authors here. If you'd like to buy the early access edition then Manning has a 50% off deal today with code dotd0314tw. You have to order it through their website, that can be accessed via http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy

even better apparently is the code joc2elaunch50 allowing discounts for a bunch of books

[tom_b]

Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning.

fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying softly in my cubicle).

Maybe at lambda jam you or David Nolen will do a workshop on logic programming. Who do I bribe to make this happen?

[siavosh]

Any additional special deals for folks who own the first edition? Maybe for just the diff ;)

[orangethirty]

May you provide some insight into the contents of the book?

[lucian1900]

Is the ebook version DRM-free from Manning? Their buy page isn't clear.

[tomku]

It's DRM-free, but visibly tagged with your name and email address on each page like other Manning ebooks.

Edit: This applies to the PDF version, the ePub and Mobi just put your name in the metadata, I believe.

[fogus]

As far as I understand the pre-release version is a regular PDF. I am unsure about the formats available when the book is complete, but I do not think that they were DRM'd in the first edition.

[juskrey]

Yes, it is DRM-free, just uploaded to my kindle.

[xaro]

Does it look fine in a Kindle with E-ink?

[tomku]

I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwed up, but that's the nature of reflowed text and multiple target devices.

[brown9-2]

You'll get an .epub when the final book is out.

[st3fan]

What is new? I have the first edition .. what will you change?

[jakubholynet]

Some of the new stuff is mentioned at http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd - - ClojureScript - more on "thinking" techniques, f.ex. unification, logic programming, constraint solving, declarative programming - Data-orientation: "dive deeply into viewing applications (and even code itself) through a data-centric lens"

[juskrey]

apparently they have some automatic coupons, "dotd0314" worked for me, and they have it every day.. (no-brainer numbers)

[fogus]

We realize that we're not about to get rich off of this book, so we'd prefer that the coupons disseminate far and wide. :-)

[juskrey]

Well, >30$ book prices usually direct me to search reading elsewhere, books under 20$ usually get to my pocket in 5 seconds without hesitating. Glad to be your early reader.

[xaritas]

Hi everybody! I'm a, uh, book junkie too. It's been seven days since I last bought. I used to keep myself strung out on Manning Deal of the Day emails to keep the buzz from the last purchase going. But then I discovered that O'Reilly's Safari books online also has Manning... and No Starch Press (the Learn You a Haskell/Erlang guys) in addition to several historically terrible publishers. But with O'Reilly, Manning and No Starch I haven't felt the need to buy. Except for Two Scoops of Django, dammit.

Downsides: no early access (it seems) and no physical books, which I love. But seriously, if you have a habit, it seems like a good deal. I just signed up for the 10 day trial and I'm loving it so far.

Disclaimer: No disclaimer, just a happy habitual book buyer.