Kernighan's "The Go Programming Language" is only $40
The authors advice seems to realize this and has a kind of let them eat cake attitude right below the pricing.
> Why not put it on your training objectives and expense it
That's not a thing everyone can do
> If you're unhappy with the price, then please feel free to take 6 years to learn, test out, write-up and maintain everything contained in the 100+ pages of my new eBook.
Or maybe I'll just buy a cheaper book from someone else?
On a more general note, I wonder if a group effort/initiative exists to "open source" the rewrite of contents of these unbeleivably expensive text books? While content can be copyrighted, the re-explained content versions of these cannot be right?
It's $60 and the absolute most I'll consider and have spent on a book of this nature, outside of botique ancient stuff....and is really well written as well as has a pretty ambitious goal (teach Haskell and programming more generally from the ground up).
> The ePub has 180+ pages, the PDF has 100 A4 pages.