Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)

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by jontas • 14 years ago

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gary4gar3• 14 years ago

Site down?

moistgorilla• 14 years ago

Yep. If this was some sort of marketing stunt. It worked.

jontas4• 14 years ago

It appears to be up now, but I would expect they got a surge of traffic that might've knocked them out when you were trying.

at-fates-hands• 14 years ago

search not working. will try again later.

numbnuts• 14 years ago

Site's crawling for me and registration seems to be down. People like free stuff.

decriddle• 14 years ago

I work for Packt and this campaign has caused huge traffic surges for us. Please be patient as we are working on the issues and the sign up is running until 8am Monday GMT.

The offer is for one of any eBooks for free, and can use the library PacktLib to browse and review books before choose. You only need to login/register before Monday but have a week to choose your book.

andrewcooke2• 14 years ago

I don't know much about ebooks and I don't have a mobile device. Does this include something like a PDF I can read on a computer?

jontas4• 14 years ago

I believe they let you download in a number of formats, including PDF, epub, mobi, etc.

spindritf• 14 years ago

They offer downloads in the major formats (open epub, Amazon's mobi, and regular pdf). Also, you can read and convert ebooks in pretty much any format using Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/

dmayle• 14 years ago

Any good recommendations for a book to choose? I browsed the 'new eBooks' section, and the only one that looked any interesting was on balsamiq mockups...

gary4gar3• 14 years ago

tried ordering an e-book & it asked for payment. i assume there a special promo code that needs to applied?

jcollins19912• 14 years ago

Offer is valid starting tomorrow (between the 28th and the 30th)

gary4gar3• 14 years ago

Where I am, its already 28th(GMT+5.30). what timezone?

jontas4• 14 years ago

You need to first create an account (if you dont already have one).

cskau• 14 years ago

Trying to 'checkout' the book doesn't seem to be supported for this offer. Instead the splash on the front page points to http://packtlib.packtpub.com/library

This seems to work for me.

oinksoft2• 14 years ago

Can anybody recommend some books put out by Packt? I've looked at quite a few of their books over the years, and they have been, without exception, dreadful (not quite a tutorial, but also not a reference, lacking in detail, and usually behind the curve technology-wise). They appear to have several hundred books so there must be some hidden gems.

elchief• 14 years ago

538 of em have 4-star+ on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_72_0?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_3...

oinksoft2• 14 years ago

Good call, thanks. I think I might look at the one on PostgreSQL optimization.

cshenoy• 14 years ago

I'd highly recommend Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov. Really any JS book by Stoyan is pretty high quality.

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-JavaScript-high-qualit...

donkeylipstick• 14 years ago

WebGL Beginner's Guide seems good, although the subject is fairly niche.

brusch• 14 years ago

I have got the "NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook" and it is really nice. Well it has many solutions and best practices. The print is not top notch - but the content is great.

corford• 14 years ago

I found the FreeSWITCH book very helpful.

imran2140• 14 years ago

"Expert Python Programming" by Tarek Ziade (http://www.packtpub.com/expert-python-programming/book)

aj• 14 years ago

To clarify the title, the site says you can download one free ebook. So a more accurate title would be "Download any one ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)"

prdsh• 14 years ago

the free offer is for any ebook in packt or only selected ebooks?

tarkin2• 14 years ago

I've had some bad experiences with Packt's books.

Choose very carefully.

This comment [1] summed the one book I read quite well:

  This book is so badly written that reading it will 
  give you a very good appreciation as to what it must
  feel like to be dyslexic, the words just come at you
  in a random order.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1849511446/ref=cm_cr...

sciurus• 14 years ago

I've had some great experiences, e.g. Gregory Smith's PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance. When considering purchasing a book on a niche topic like Magneto or PostgreSQL, I think it's worth waiting for prominent community members to get review copies and write about their impression, e.g. http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/192-PostgreSQ...

johnx123-up• 14 years ago

Very true; I was trying to avoid Packt for the same reason. Recently, friend of mine shown two books that changed my perception. They're really good (IMHO):

1. http://www.packtpub.com/play-framework-cookbook/book 2. http://www.packtpub.com/php-ajax-for-web-2-0-cookbook/book

By the way, any good book for Rust available?

damian2000• 14 years ago

If their website is down you can browse their books on amazon ...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&...

(sorted by publication date)

atopuzov2• 14 years ago

So it seems that in 2 days time their's entire catalog will be downloadable for free on the torrent sites :)

mapleoin• 14 years ago

What makes you think it's not there already?

atopuzov2• 14 years ago

Yup, one can already see some of the books appearing on the cove of men that love to say Arrr a lot ;) But not the one I'm looking for ;(

nchase• 14 years ago

Hey guys, I think you killed it.

js951534• 14 years ago

or go to legalreads.com and download million ebooks for free ;)

aw3c22• 14 years ago

illegal downloads above

nicholassmith2• 14 years ago

Got all the way through finding a book I was interested in (whoever said check the reviews, thank you, a couple I was interested in were slated), then clicking for the download link and then...502 Bad Gateway.

Possibly demand has exceeded expectation.

(As a footnote I picked the Node Cookbook, as I was interested in either an Obj-C, a Node or a RoR book but the RoR stuff was published 2008, so maybe outdate somewhat)

aw3c22• 14 years ago

Reposting a dead (no idea why) comment:

decriddle 1 hour ago

I work for Packt and this campaign has caused huge traffic surges for us. Please be patient as we are working on the issues and the sign up is running until 8am Monday GMT. The offer is for one of any eBooks for free, and can use the library PacktLib to browse and review books before choose. You only need to login/register before Monday but have a week to choose your book.

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andrewcooke2• 14 years ago

also, if you follow the blue "yes please" link on the front page, you can register via a page that is much more responsive than the rest of the site. that appears to guarantee your participation in the scheme (they say they will email you when the site is back to normal).

nicholassmith2• 14 years ago

I can't edit my previous post, but it looks like they've started getting on top of their network issues.

wpietri• 14 years ago

I would strongly recommend against giving these guys your email address.

I once bought a book from them and have had to ask them to take me off their mailing list 8 times now over a 3-year period.

Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)

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