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Alas not available from Google Play store in Australia....
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Cloudster commented on
Cheap ebook!
Yay! I occasionally think about buying Knuth's series, but I work in higher level languages and databases and eschew C et al. I just don't have time to get back in to the trenches and learn low level stuff....
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Cloudster commented on
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Charlie, are there plans to progressively release the entire series at lowered ebook prices, or is this a one-shot thing? Personally I'd be willing to pay an additional $2 or $3 to get an ebook along with the hardback, but I'm not going to drop big bucks on a HB and turn around and spend paperback prices on an ebook....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Cheap ebook!
This is a one-shot promotion, to get new readers interested in the series in the run-up to the release of book six. (Which will initially be a hardcover -- with ebook priced to match -- before repeating as a paperback, with a lower ebook price to match, 12 months down the line.)...
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barren_samadhi commented on
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just fyi, AZORIAN report declassified. (as for tentacles.. squid on p37..) http://cryptome.org/2014/09/cia-glomar-azorian-engineering.pdf...
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Hank Roberts commented on
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Huh. Bought it. Tried to use Calibre to convert it to .PDB so I can read it (yeah, I'm still using a Palm OS, Clie TH55), it's the only portable reader I own. This has worked in the past for many things bought via Kindle Turns out Amazon's got it copy-protected. Can't seem to convert it with the current Calibre, can't read it except on the desktop. Unfortunate....
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