Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303832

by eik3_de • 12 years ago

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news.ycombinator.com

http://www.packtpub.com/

no credit card required, mailinator emails happily accepted :>

    DOTDEBOOKFREE

veerbahadur• 12 years ago

It really worked

rashthedude3• 12 years ago

at what point do I see the deductio? I have entered the promo code, checked out and hesitant now to enter my credit details.

morituri2• 12 years ago

If you do it right (i.e, just have one book in the cart), the button should say Check Out For Free

imwhimsical• 12 years ago

Hi, How does this work? I added a few ebooks to my cart and tried to use the promo code, but it still doesn't show any change.

EDIT — Worked like a charm. Thanks much!

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

add one to cart, apply promo, enter bogus data, checkout. repeat.

kelmop• 12 years ago

script anyone?! :D

u02sgb• 12 years ago

Worked for me too, don't even need Mailinator (as you don't need to pickup the email). Address with randomly chosen Post (zip) code.

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

Any recommendations for well-written books?

hackerboos• 12 years ago

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

I got "Building Machine Learning Systems with Python".

JPKab2• 12 years ago

Great book. I'm one of the suckers who paid for it months ago.

arafalov4• 12 years ago

You could try mine: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book . It's quite popular and comes with a GitHub repo for the examples.

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

As an Packt author, can you opt out of those everything-free discounts?

How do you feel that a huge number of potential buyers gets your book today for free?

JPKab2• 12 years ago

Get Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook.

It's a concise, very fast introduction to doing stuff with the Clojure Incanter library. Combined with LightTable, it's very fun.

nekgrim2• 12 years ago

Can I create a 'real' account and centralize all my ebooks, or do I need to create one account per ebook?

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

one discout per account

nekgrim2• 12 years ago

Thanks

gionn• 12 years ago

For lazy, to ease copy-paste:

DOTDEBOOKFREE

rashthedude3• 12 years ago

Adding the promo code in the Checkout section doesn't trigger or reset the price and it's still asking me to continue checking out using either credit or paypal. What am I doing wrong here?

endijs• 12 years ago

Try to add only one book. That way it works for me.

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

maybe old cookies? try incognito window (crtl-shift-n in chrome)

joniels• 12 years ago

Thanks!

daw___• 12 years ago

No email confirmation and plain text captcha. They got to be kidding.

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

they don't even check if the email looks right. abc@abc.invalid works..

smoyer• 12 years ago

It looks like you can get a second e-book for free if you allow them to send seven days worth of daily deals (I unsubscribed from everything before noticing the message).

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

you should add "... e-book for free per account ..."

slimbods• 12 years ago

Not sure if they've just changed it, but the offer for the mailing list is now 50% off your next book. Or is that a different offer?

thehodge• 12 years ago

the search functionality on the site is really inaccurate, I searched for ruby and the first book recommended is Raspberry Pi Media Centre, nothing on the first two pages had ruby in the title.

arafalov4• 12 years ago

Yeah, I find it funny given that they published like 10 books on Solr and Elastic Search combined. I guess they don't have time to eat their own dogfood. The problem with breadth publishing approach!

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

can't confirm: http://www.packtpub.com/search?keys=Ruby&sort=0&types=0&fort... seems to work

cotsog• 12 years ago

Clickable: http://www.packtpub.com

angry_octet2• 12 years ago

It's a pity they don't have akamai/cloudfront or something, it seems they are getting crushed.

So whomever is running 27 simultaneous downloads, please stop. You'll never read all those books.

wut42• 12 years ago

You're right, I'll never read them. However I'm collecting a shitload of pdfs, I convert them to HTML, put them in an ElasticSearch database, so I can search their content when I need it.

It's more like a complementary documentation database.

ScottWhigham• 12 years ago

That sounds fun - I'd like to hear more about that.

arafalov4• 12 years ago

Sounds like too many steps. Why not use ePub directly. It's just a Zip with funny HTML inside. Index that and you may even get page numbers. Contact me if interested in collaborating (it's one of my todo projects).

inkongruent• 12 years ago

thx

TeamMCS• 12 years ago

Cheers mate. great stuff

obiobi• 12 years ago

aaaand.. the site is down for maintenance.

got a few books though.

pranavkpr• 12 years ago

Damn, now getting a status 503.

Pitarou4• 12 years ago

"Down for maintenance."

I guess it's the Hacker News effect.

eik3_de9• 12 years ago

the Varnish "Guru Meditation"[1] page never fails to give me a little smile, reducing the anger about unavailable pages

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation

Pitarou4• 12 years ago

I wondered about that. I thought "Guru Meditation" was an AmigaOS only thing.

Pitarou4• 12 years ago

Oh! They're back up again. I'm grabbing _Nginx HTTP Server Second Edition_ now. :-)

angry_octet2• 12 years ago

"Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid."

Move along folks, move along now.

hmhrex3• 12 years ago

DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE...

great.

djeps• 12 years ago

Now promo code invalid

prattbhatt• 12 years ago

Is it still working for anyone? I see "Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid".

hmhrex3• 12 years ago

Me too... That really sucks.

bcraun• 12 years ago

Sadly, the code is, evidently, no longer valid.

ErolStaveley• 12 years ago

Today, one of our discount codes escaped into the wild! If you were lucky enough to download a free ebook today we hope you enjoy it - we'd also like to thank the HN community in particular for highlighting some legitimate issues on our end. We'll definitely be looking into addressing these. However, nothing that good can last for ever, and the discount code itself should no longer be active.

We're happy to talk to any of our authors about the impact this might have had on individual titles on a case by case basis - you should always feel free to get in touch with your primary editorial contact even after publication (alternatively, you can email me directly regarding this particular discount at erols@packtpub.com). We're here to help and support you not only through the publication process, but also beyond.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused to customers who tried using a code that we emailed out directly. Please contact us at customercare@packtpub.com if you have experienced any problems as a result.

Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

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