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Hi all, one of the authors here. If you'd like to buy the early access edition then Manning has a 50% off deal today with code dotd0314tw. You have to order it through their website, that can be accessed via http://www.joyofclojure.com/buy

even better apparently is the code joc2elaunch50 allowing discounts for a bunch of books

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Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning.

fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying softly in my cubicle).

Maybe at lambda jam you or David Nolen will do a workshop on logic programming. Who do I bribe to make this happen?

Any additional special deals for folks who own the first edition? Maybe for just the diff ;)

May you provide some insight into the contents of the book?

Is the ebook version DRM-free from Manning? Their buy page isn't clear.

Yes, it is DRM-free, just uploaded to my kindle.

Does it look fine in a Kindle with E-ink?

I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwed up, but that's the nature of reflowed text and multiple target devices.

You'll get an .epub when the final book is out.

As far as I understand the pre-release version is a regular PDF. I am unsure about the formats available when the book is complete, but I do not think that they were DRM'd in the first edition.

It's DRM-free, but visibly tagged with your name and email address on each page like other Manning ebooks.

Edit: This applies to the PDF version, the ePub and Mobi just put your name in the metadata, I believe.

What is new? I have the first edition .. what will you change?

Some of the new stuff is mentioned at http://www.joyofclojure.com/2nd - - ClojureScript - more on "thinking" techniques, f.ex. unification, logic programming, constraint solving, declarative programming - Data-orientation: "dive deeply into viewing applications (and even code itself) through a data-centric lens"

apparently they have some automatic coupons, "dotd0314" worked for me, and they have it every day.. (no-brainer numbers)

We realize that we're not about to get rich off of this book, so we'd prefer that the coupons disseminate far and wide. :-)

Well, >30$ book prices usually direct me to search reading elsewhere, books under 20$ usually get to my pocket in 5 seconds without hesitating. Glad to be your early reader.

Hi everybody! I'm a, uh, book junkie too. It's been seven days since I last bought. I used to keep myself strung out on Manning Deal of the Day emails to keep the buzz from the last purchase going. But then I discovered that O'Reilly's Safari books online also has Manning... and No Starch Press (the Learn You a Haskell/Erlang guys) in addition to several historically terrible publishers. But with O'Reilly, Manning and No Starch I haven't felt the need to buy. Except for Two Scoops of Django, dammit.

Downsides: no early access (it seems) and no physical books, which I love. But seriously, if you have a habit, it seems like a good deal. I just signed up for the 10 day trial and I'm loving it so far.

Disclaimer: No disclaimer, just a happy habitual book buyer.

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