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SitePoint Books now in PDF format!
This just in from the marketing department (also known as Shayne, the marketing guy):
SitePoint goes mobile
I wonder how many people don’t know what PDF stands for. Portable Document Format, that’s what! Well, we’ve got a whole collection of them and they’re all online ready to be sold as a package or on their own. Friends of SitePoint, your wish is our command: SitePoint books have gone mobile.
That’s right—the entire SitePoint book library* is now available in the pocket-sized, instant-gratification-compatible PDF format, in addition to the popular dead tree format. For the first time, all our black-and-white titles can now be viewed with full color screenshots!
Now whenever you buy a book direct from SitePoint you get to choose
- the hardcopy version delivered to your door,
- the PDF version delivered to your inbox ($10 off the cover price!), or
- both formats (only $10 extra!).
Oh, and if you want to upgrade to the PDF version of a book (or books) that you already own, just drop our sales team a line and they’ll gladly hook you up with our special $10 upgrade price.
* “The CSS Anthology” is an exception right now, as we’re busy clearing an overstock of the …
What to Expect With SilverLight 1.1 Alpha
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements about SilverLight (formerly WPF/E). At NAB, they showcased some of its video abilities and at MIX, they announced that it would have CLR support within browsers. After talking to some of the people that developed SilverLight at MIX and working with the beta and alpha tools over the past week, I’ve come to a few conclusions about SilverLight.
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