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imagine https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-reference on a LLM that we could talk to. I bought the book but I forgot that I did.
I wish Manning would release it tbh, they've been sitting on it for a long time now (it's complete from renzo)
Maybe those of us who bought it in MEAP (myself included) should collectively ask for our money back?
too expensive to print
It's the biggest manning book ever, it's too long to print
I was wondering about this too, perhaps they could release it in multiple printed volumes (to mitigate the upper bound for print book page length).
I have no knowledge of costs/durability/etc tradeoffs, but looking at the shelf closest to me, I have many books that are bigger than 600 pages, and even more that are bigger than 400: crafting interpreters (600), Haskell in Depth ( 650), Head First Design Patterns ( 650), Cracking the Coding Interview (700), and Code Complete (~900). programming books can get big lol. These are all softcover, if that matters
oh wow, really? I had no idea
I seem to remember Renzo stating in a podcast that the book was too long to print, but 600 pages doesn’t seem as long as what I thought it was.
TBH, I'm not sure about the too long to print, or it being expensive. Manning is still right now printing books of similar (or more) pages. 2. Whilst the audience for such a book is smaller than say, Elasticsearch in Action (perhaps???), I'm hopeful it would be a good seller and thus be popular (for those in the know) to purchase (to support the cause!). I would be suprised if Manning does not have good deals on paper stock (Dunder Mifflin Paper Company do good deals I hear!) To randomly pick one non-representaive book just recently published - .NET MAU in Action is nearly 500 pages long - this feels like a book that would have a small market and yet they published it. I guess I'm just sorry to see it languish as an MEAP for such a long time rather than having it at least available to purchase from your favourite online bookstore!
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU091301 PPI (producer price index) on paper is up 26% in the past couple of years, higher than consumer inflation
Came here to look for this exactly. I'm always checking whether it's printed already, because I also paid for the real book to have on my book shelf with other programming books 😄 But feels kinda lame now, that it's ready and not printed... Altough it says it's still "in development". Is it sure they are not gonna print it soon ™️ ?