Forecasting: principles and practice (free ebook)

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From the book's Preface:

The entire book is available online and free-of-charge. Of course, we won’t make much money doing this, but textbooks never make much money anyway — the publishers make all the money. We’d rather create something that is widely used and useful, than have large publishers profit from our efforts.

What an interesting subject. Does anyone else have a bookmarks folder full of interesting subjects that they intend to go through at SOME date?

Is anyone else like me and the growth of that list seems to completely outpace your ability to work through it? :)

Yes! I'm waiting for a free day when I have the time and motivation... I have been waiting for some time, and the list keeps growing, to the point where it is now daunting.

A terrifying amount of fun awaits.

Perhaps we need a HN book club?

http://hackershelf.com/browse/

http://www.hn-books.com/

Yes. My solution: keep growing the list but keep filtering it through a prioritization algorithm.

My wife does the same thing when scheduling me and my time.

This looks really interesting. Is there a link on the site anywhere to download it as a PDF or Mobi? I'd love to drop it on my kindle but I don't see a link.

Looks like it's a work in progress, so I don't guess they're ready to have the whole thing be available.

They indicate that print book will eventually be available, so providing the book in PDF, mobi or ePub may be a breach of contract with the publisher. Publisher may still be OK that general public cannot easily put on an eReader or paper stack.

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