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I wrote "quietly" released in my original HN title (since edited by mods) because Resig neither made a blog post nor even tweeted about its availability, which seemed very odd to me, especially for something 4 years in the works.

He did write a bit about the status of the book back in July, if anyone is interested: http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens/

edit: John just tweeted: https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/285858421029347328

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Sorry for the delay in announcing it - I was waiting for the book to physically arrive in my hands, which it hasn't done so, yet. (I have a copy pre-ordered with Amazon and since that's the way most people will be receiving the acquiring the book, I imagine, I wanted to make sure it was actually, physically, being distributed before I announced it.)

I plan on writing up a full blog post once I have my copy of the book.

John: Sorry, I just fat-fingered a down vote that was supposed to be an up vote. Thanks for checking in. I'm looking forward to the book myself.

Any plans for a kindle version? As I lives in an asian country (Sri Lanka) kindle is best and only way to access amazon book store :)

I assume you mean having the book physically shipped to Sri Lanka is not feasible/possible. Consider buying the ebook from Manning directly [0]. They do offer the ebook in Kindle (mobi) format.

[0]: http://manning.com/resig/

Yes. Shipping to Sri Lanka is harder or takes too much time. Thanks. I will go for the manning site. It works

Once there's a pdf or other ebook available it'll be pirated. How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand. The Lazarus (object pascal ide) book is only available in a physical book format for this reason.

It may well be pirated regardless:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

In another life I wrote technical books, which at the time were only available in physical formats. That didn't stop electronic versions of the more popular books from appearing on usenet.

That's a good read. It's hard to understand the motivation of someone who's prepared to put in that many hours pirating a single book. It's seems a bit pathetic

> How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.

Because the people downloading it are not necessarily the same people who'd have bought it otherwise.

Plus exposure. I pirate a lot of stuff. At the same time I buy more books and music than anyone else I know.

This blog post is worth reading. In it he apologizes for the book taking so long and expresses some regret for taking on the project in the first place:

"Ironically working on the book (or not working on it, however you look at it) actually compelled me to NOT blog more as every time I wanted to write a technical blog post I was forcing myself to make the decision “I’m writing about 1000 words on a technical matter, shouldn’t this just be going towards my uncompleted book?” and would just end up writing nothing as a result."

Procastination 101

Makes me kinda hate the book since he was such an awesome blogger. :(

Aww. I really want to start blogging again, in ernest, this year. I loved all the old blog posts I did - would love to do it again!

I suppose a true ninja never announces himself.

4 years ago that title would have been awesome too

I think it is a good title for 2012/2013 also. They could have called it "Barf" though, and I'd be excited about it.

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