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But it's still frustrating. The point is not writing blog posts at all. He's suggesting that you can continue to use WordPress behind the scenes, as an implementation detail, if that makes you happiest but to stop blogging. I wanted to thank you for this comment. It blew my mind to some degree. For me there were three specific ideas to take away from this comment which I am guessing you wrote in a few minutes.

I loved the quality of the writing. Insightful, entertaining. Use phrases like 'covetous neuroreceptors' and mine start to fire. I usually pay attention to your comments because it is you, patio This time I hadn't read the fact that it was you and yet I found the comment useful and it prompted me to see you wrote it.

Great advice, as always. Listen to this man! I wonder why the PDF looks that way? It seems designed not to be printed. And there's also no ebook available, just the PDF, so if you want it on the Kindle you have to convert it yourself.

It's like they try to nudge you towards buying the thing. Which, of course, isn't a bad thing but I wonder if it's intentional. It's a pretty old book though so I doubt this strategy will work but I might be mistaken.

Maybe they want you to print it on really large paper and use it as your office wallpaper? That's a completely different strategy…. Perhaps they don't own the rights to redistribute the Kindle version? Anyhow, I would have preferred a simple text file. I don't see what PDF gives me except extra work to convert it to something else. Which is probably why, most likely, I'm not even going to read the thing. You won't read their free book that you would have otherwise liked to have read because they don't distribute it in your preferred format but instead in 2 very ubiquitous formats that are easily converted?

This is not a personal attack but it is a criticism and I think it applies to a lot of people, really. There seems to be this really weird trend where people seem to think they're entitled to free stuff when and how they want it. They don't quite come out and demand it but the subtext is clear as day.

Your comment and much of the others exemplify this. You basically just said "I'm not reading it because it doesn't come in my preferred format" which isn't far from "they should release it in the format I desire". Then there's that direct download link and the complaints about giving an email to get a PDF. That's entitlement. It seems the beggars believe they can also be choosers.

Someone is giving something at no cost but people still feel they should be able to circumvent simply giving an email which they can unsubscribe from later quite easily. Imagine if 37Signals set up a booth on a public street corner and gave away hard copies of their book and then people went around saying "I shouldn't have to walk to the booth and say hi to Jason and DHH, they should just ship it to me".

Its really not that big of a stretch! I happen to notice a lot of this and it really gets to me. You are reading too much into what I've said. The book itself seems interesting because of all the hype about it.

But if I say I won't read it because it's not in the format I want it that suggests how important it really is to me, ie. I'm not saying I'm entitled to their book in my format, just that it would have been convenient. There is only so much time available and even the "free" stuff costs, the more hoops they make you jump through.

If Coca Cola is giving away free six-packs at the local supermarket I probably won't drive half an hour to get there. But I also won't go to the neighborhood small market to get a single bottle because I'll realize I never wanted a Coca Cola to begin with, I was only curious what all the hype about the new flavor is all about. Or maybe they want you to buy the print version? I have a copy, but have never actually got round to reading it.

Smerity on May 23, prev next [—]. This release gives 37Signals a number of advantages. This will benefit them far more than any lingering sales revenue might have. If you object to the email address I am sure you can unsubscribe later. Oddily many paid ebooks are available free via the authors blogs. LeanPub and others make it really easy to roll up your blog into an ebook and then easily sell it via the usual channels.

Really appreciated. First read this book about 3 years ago and immediately started telling people about it. Really spoke to me. With this free release I have started emailing people about it all over again. Thought it was already free for years. It was free in its html version. Hmm, a PDF isn't much better than HTML, they should provide some ebook format—how should one read this thing conveniently on his smartphone?

Quit complaining. Convert the PDF yourself. The damned thing was free! Perhaps they should send us an iPad to read it on too? Surely your "smartphone" can read a PDF? Try this yourself. I've recently started using Moon-Reader on Android. Plus the whole application is designed for reading multiple books. I've tried converting from other formats to ePUB via Calibre, and it's a bit hit-or-miss.

Under Ubunto Sorry, but the mobile PDF experience is extremely broken. Actually, other than printing to paper or previewing same , the PDF experience is extremely broken. I'd prefer ePUB for pretty much all my documentation these days. I don't read books on a phone and the PDF viewing experience on an iPad is perfectly fine. Is there another "mobile" that I'm missing? I haven't dropped a dime on an iPad or other tablet device yet.

If you'll note my points, there's functionality above and beyond just plain display that a proper eBook app has. From what I've seen, present PDF readers lack these. Constant zooming and panning for every page turn and no ability to alter the font, size or color. Sure, smartphones can render PDFs just fine, but reading long PDFs on small screens is just a miserable experience inherit to the format. PDFs are usually painful to read because you have to scroll the page sideways to get the font size I like.

But from memory the book is not image heavy, so converting to a text doc or epub format should be a very easy cut 'n paste, so the parent comment is a little bit on the ungrateful side.

EliRivers on May 23, prev next [—]. For something that implies on the cover that it is going to get real about build wep apps, there's very little actual building of web apps in there.

Thanks guys! I think you should remove this link. It is just not nice. I don't know. On the one hand, it's also not nice for people to fish for my email address, which is why services like Mailinator are so wildly popular.

On the other hand, it doesn't always justify not-nice behaviour to note that it's in response to, and works to ameliorate, other not-nice behaviour. Yes, I know, 37signals is a bit more respectable than most of the people who want your email. Nevertheless they're signing you up for an email list without explicitly asking you -- the email that they send back specifically says, "Periodically we'll drop you a line if we have something interesting to share. For years I have worked under the assumption that my email has been harvested to death, sold and resold.

I don't care about giving it to companies. Gmail hides the spam from me and it's quick filter wizard helps me hide anything else I want to. E-mail is a low price for "Getting Real". I'm just surprised that 37signals are using techniques of "six-pack in a week"-kind of sites. How so?

Probably because it circumvents the price of submitting your email address. I find it odd sometimes that people don't take the same attitude towards Adblock. Sponsored links are a price too. You don't have to submit anything. Don't you have to submit your email address to gain access to the PDF? Yes, and doing so also auto-subscribes you to a list. Not that I mind, but it would be nice to let someone know beforehand.

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