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Where to order Hardboiled Web Design, 6 Dec 2010
I have had reports of people who have ordered this book (Hardboiled Web Design) via Amazon and are either waiting for it to be available from Amazon or have had their orders from them cancelled. As the author of this book, I wanted to explain why Hardboiled Web Design will not be available for sale via Amazon, now or in the future.
As Amazon and other distributers take up to 60% of the proceeds of the sale, we made the decision to only sell the book direct. This ensured that I would make enough money from royalties to justify the 12 months I spent working on the book and allow the publisher, Five Simple Steps to spend months designing this highly visual book.
When Hardboiled Web Design was published, Amazon listed the book for pre-order without contacting Five Simple Steps. It has since moved from pre-order to Not Available. This is untrue. You can order Hardboiled Web Design now, direct from Five Simple Steps, in paperback, PDF and soon ePub formats. Ordering direct means that you support authors in the best way and helps to maintain the high quality we aim for.
Andy Clarke
Author of Hardboiled Web Design
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Fantastic book, well worth buying, 30 Dec 2010
As soon as I heard about this book being published, I pre-ordered it via Amazon.
I was one of those (as Andy Clarke mentions) who has their order cancelled by Amazon. What gives? I thought, and contacted @Malarkey on Twitter to find out how else to buy it.
A quick direct response (thank you!), and I scurried off to the (beautifully designed - naturally) website that accompanies the book. Order placed, excitement high.
Christmas Eve (joy!) and Hardboiled Web Design finally smacks through the letterbox. For a book, it's a ruddy thick box - and no wasted space - it's all book. The packaging and exterior labels are quite gorgeous in their own right.
As to the book? It's wonderful. The paper stock, typography, layout, colour production are all perfect.
As to the content? It's an (and I hope I won't offend the author here, I mean it as a compliment) incremental revelation, a web development revolution. It gives us designers and developers the backing to push forward with principles such as progressive enhancement and graceful degradation - but from the point of view that differences in browsing (and browser capabilities) should be celebrated - not shamed.
That's what 'hardboiled' is all about - giving the tools and techniques to push forward with the new web standards, ensuring that our work can be viewed across *all* browsers, even if that work looks radically (and intentionally) different from one browser to the next.
If you design or develop web content in any capacity, then this book is a must-have.
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A sure classic, 25 Jan 2011
I was initially dismayed that Amazon had not informed us that they would not be shipping this book - even though I was on the e-mail list I did not receive anything to inform me of this. Come on Amazon.
Glad that I read the other reviews and discovered this book is only available directly from the publisher.
The book itself is wonderful, so well designed and thought out. I'll be making well use of the techniques on its pages. While I am not a professional web developer I always use the latest CSS and XHTML techniques to develop the sites of the few people who hire me.
Well worth buying this book.
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