Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

[eik3_de]

http://www.packtpub.com/

no credit card required, mailinator emails happily accepted :>

    DOTDEBOOKFREE

[ErolStaveley]

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 [email protected]). 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 [email protected] if you have experienced any problems as a result.

[gionn]

For lazy, to ease copy-paste:

DOTDEBOOKFREE

:>

[prattbhatt]

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 I see "Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid".

[hmhrex]

Me too... That really sucks.

[eik3_de]

Any recommendations for well-written books?

[arafalov]

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.

[hackerboos]

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

I got "Building Machine Learning Systems with Python".

[JPKab]

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.

[nekgrim]

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

[eik3_de]

one discout per account

[angry_octet]

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]

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.

[Pitarou]

"Down for maintenance."

I guess it's the Hacker News effect.

[eik3_de]

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

[Pitarou]

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

[rashthedude]

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]

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

[eik3_de]

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

[thehodge]

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.

[arafalov]

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_de]

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

[imwhimsical]

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_de]

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

[smoyer]

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).

[slimbods]

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?

[eik3_de]

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

[u02sgb]

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.

[cotsog]

Clickable: http://www.packtpub.com

[daw___]

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

[eik3_de]

they don't even check if the email looks right. [email protected] works..

[bcraun]

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

[veerbahadur]

It really worked

[rashthedude]

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

[hmhrex]

DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE...

great.

[pranavkpr]

Damn, now getting a status 503.

[obiobi]

aaaand.. the site is down for maintenance.

got a few books though.

[TeamMCS]

Cheers mate. great stuff