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Book Update XXXXIII

     

Amazon.com indicates that Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls is in stock. There has already been some good feedback from our customers a few of our customers, and a common question is approximately why isn’t this content free?

The short answer is that DevExpress isn't [corrected] making money on the book. We negotiated a very low retail price in lieu of revenue. The long answer is that publishers publish, and producing content is a long way away from publishing a book. The collaboration with a professional publisher like Wrox is to ensure that the finished product—a book in this instance—is of high quality.

There is of course a lot of free content on the DevExpress website, and we hope the book provides additional content in a supplemental form. I will be blogging on related subject matter and the code is online on the Wrox site (for the book).

Published Nov 10 2009, 07:23 PM by Paul Kimmel (DevExpress)
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Bernd said:

nice... any plans for a DX Windows Form boo?

November 10, 2009 2:43 PM
 

Tarik Souirji said:

I believe you meant: The short answer is that DevExpress is "NOT" making money on the book. :p

Feel free to delete my comment after having corrected your blog post.

Best regards

-Tarik Souirji-  

November 10, 2009 3:21 PM
 

Brendon Muck [DX Squad] said:

I'm glad I took 8 years of Latin so that I could figure out what "XXXXIII" means.

Also, I think you mean to say that DevExpress ISN'T making any money on this book.

I don't see any issue with charging for a book. I don't see any issue if DX were to PROFIT from the book either. The consumer is paying for your expertise and to aggregate a mountain of examples and data that is freely available. If you want everything put together in a nice package, buy the book. If not, spend a few hours navigating through the myriad of free examples.

I'm looking forward to reading this. But I'm sure I'll have to bundle it with an ASP.NET book since my web skills are pretty rusty. Regardless, I'm confident that $26 is a paltry sum for the knowledge contained within this book.

November 10, 2009 3:40 PM
 

Kevin Farrow said:

Whilst a book like this is great news for us developers that feel the Devexpress documentation is at best "poor", ensuring high quality documentation shouldn't need a professional publisher.

Infact Telerik provide an excellent high quality PDF book in the form of a 794 page Step By Step learning guide which is updated regularly, usually when each major update of the software is released. Oh, and it's published by themselves and free, which is always a plus :-)

November 10, 2009 3:50 PM
 

Paul Kimmel (DevExpress) said:

Brendon:

43 is a vague reference to Douglas Adams.

Paul

November 10, 2009 3:57 PM
 

Rick Bartlett said:

Hmmm... I thought The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42

November 10, 2009 7:59 PM
 

Tarik Souirji said:

BTW ... XXXXIII OR XLIII ?

November 10, 2009 8:09 PM
 

Michal Bielamowicz said:

43 in Roman Notation (or at least using most common version) is XLIII, since you do not put four same characters in line....

BTW: all this mess about price of the book is stupid. From the publishers point of view the original text is full of crap. Publishers spent hours and hours polishing style, langugage, doing DTP and nice fonts. You can tolerate awful language in web manual, but one would expect a BOOK is written using fluent and nice English (not like mine, English is not my mother tongue). This all costs money, but hey - 26 bucks is really low price for 670 pages book

November 11, 2009 8:56 AM
 

Tom said:

@Paul: I thought 42 was the magic number...43?

November 11, 2009 10:33 AM
 

Syed Abu Fahad said:

I hope DevExpress should include "one copy" of Book with all their .Net Subscriptions :)

November 11, 2009 11:06 AM
 

Mike Besso said:

OK... Deep Thought revealed the answer was 42...

I give, what is the reference to 43?

November 11, 2009 12:25 PM
 

Paul Kimmel (DevExpress) said:

Right XLII. The meaning of life and everything was 42 last year.

November 11, 2009 3:05 PM
 

Brendon Muck [DX Squad] said:

And this is why publishers have proof readers.

November 11, 2009 4:40 PM
 

Keith Puckett said:

Just Ordered the Book!

Can't wait to get it.

Thanks

November 11, 2009 5:17 PM
 

Joe Hendricks said:

loving the book - here is the wrox book example code link:

www.wrox.com/.../productCd-0470500832,descCd-DOWNLOAD.html

November 24, 2009 1:02 PM
 

Joe Hendricks said:

Paul, just finished my first read of your outstanding book - now going through all the examples.  Would love to see a sequel that explores XAF in Asp.Net, CodeRush/RefactorPro Asp.Net features and any new features DX adds for VS2010 and .Net 4 for web apps :-)

December 30, 2009 7:08 AM
 

Paul Kimmel (DevExpress) said:

Joe: Happy that you liked it. There have been occassional discussions about books for other parts of our product line. I think a CodeRush/Refactor book would be fun. Writing templates and digging around in DXCore. XAF would be good. A WinForms book....

Which products do you have?

Paul

December 30, 2009 10:37 AM
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