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Contact pragprog.com to request volume license (bulk buy) Programming Elixir Book by Dave Thomas #11

Closed nelsonic closed 7 years ago

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

The Elixir Book: https://pragprog.com/book/elixir13/programming-elixir-1-3 Programming Elixir 1.3. front cover

is easily the best way to learn Elixir. Should we consider buying 20 copies in "bulk" and giving one to each person in DWYL to accelerate people's learning?

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Who is interested in getting a paper copy of the book?

SimonLab commented 7 years ago

@nelsonic I think you already know that I'm interested by the book

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

@SimonLab noted. have sent them an email. let's see what they say. 👍

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

So... we emailed PragProg.com to request a discount for buying several books at once. They got back to us with a "20% Discount... prag-prog-no-discount

The Recommended Retail Price their website is for the Programming Phoenix book is: $34 https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix pragprog-phoenix-$34 So the "discounted" price would be $34 - (0.2 x $34) = $27.20 or £21.73 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$27.20+in+gbp image

Which is MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE AMAZON RETAIL PRICE!!!!!! £21.34 at the time of writing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1680501453/ image

This literally Blows My Mind that a company would not jump at the opportunity to sell their product directly to the customer for a lower price than the retailer and make more money overall because for Amazon to be selling them for £21.34, they must be giving Amazon a decent discount, because Amazon is NOT a Charity!!

Then if we consider the offers on the Amazon Marketplace: programming-phoenix-cheaper-on-amazon-marketplace

It's pretty clear that "Super Book Deals" must be getting a pretty good price from PragProg in order to sell the book for £13.87 ...

So... obviously I placed an order from the Amazon Marketplace! (cause I'm not an idiot with money to burn!!) Three Phoenix Books: amazon-marketplace-phoenix-book

Two Elixir Books: programming-elixir-2-copies

Prag Prog is still getting paid for their Fantastic Content. (we aren't "stealing" it...!) But ... Rather than getting £13.80 per book (what I proposed to Prag Prog...) they will be getting what ever "Super Book Deals" is paying them ... i.e. considerably less!!

This my friends is how not to do business. Especially when there are so many people who are getting your content without paying... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=programming%20phoenix%20pdf%20download%20free&rct=j image

heru commented 7 years ago

Hi.. I'm interested programming phoenix and programming elixir 1.3. Would you send me copies of books ?

Thanks you.

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

Hi Heru, Welcome to @dwyl! ❤️ We're stoked you want to learn elixir! Have you had a look at http://elixirschool.com yet? (how far did you get?) If you prefer to learn from a "book", please email me. Thanks! N :-)