We don't control when Amazon lists it: the book is not currently on any of the bookseller database feeds, so it won't be appearing there for a while.
You'll probably want to check back with them in August--it'll be definitely there by then.
Regards
Dave Thomas
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On May 2, 2006, at 5:03 PM, David Pollak wrote:
Could you make another announcement when the book is available from Amazon.
I just looked for it so I could pre-order, but only the 1st edition is
listed.
I want to buy the book and I like to give Amazon my business.
David Pollak wrote:
I want to buy the book and I like to give Amazon my business.
Just curious: why do you prefer to give Amazon your business
over giving Dave your business?
(Note: you can't get a PDF from Amazon.)
Regards,
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Bil
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov
Dave gets my business because I'm buying his book.
Amazon gets my business because I'm an Amazon Prime member so the books get
shipped 2 day for no additional charge and Amazon has always done the right
thing by me when orders were lost in shipments, etc. I make on average 3
Amazon orders a week and I always feel satisfied with the orders, thus I
want to keep supporting a vendor that does right by me.
Finally, if the large distributors (e.g., Amazon, B&N, Borders) have more
orders for Ruby materials, the more they will promote/stock Ruby titles.
Helping Ruby books get shelf space is a very good thing for the Ruby
community and for Ruby book publishers.
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On 5/3/06, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
David Pollak wrote:
>
> I want to buy the book and I like to give Amazon my business.
Just curious: why do you prefer to give Amazon your business
over giving Dave your business?
(Note: you can't get a PDF from Amazon.)
Regards,
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http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov
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Dave gets a lot more of that "business" from those that buy directly from Dave. 
James Edward Gray II
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On May 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David Pollak wrote:
Dave gets my business because I'm buying his book.
Yeah ... besides, the Gerbil Union doesn't have a contract with Amazon.
My order of priority for buying books is:
1. Powell's here in Portland if they have it in stock.
2. The original publisher if they ship -- which in this case would be
Dave Thomas. 
3. Search addall.com for the best price ... or if it's out of print,
this becomes #2.
4. Amazon.
To the poster who wondered whether to get PDF only or Combo ... I
started out buying the combos but have switched to PDF only. My reasoning:
1. For a beta, at least, there is something like a three to six month
lead time. By the time the book is actually in print, I will or should
have everything in it committed to memory/code/internalized.
2. Given a laptop, PDFs are as portable as a paper book. I have several
hundred PDFs, including just about everything Pragmatic has published, a
bunch of queuing theory papers and other miscellaneous "light reading"
on my laptop. It's close to a gigabyte zipped, and is the largest single
item in my home directory.
I can't even begin to estimate what all of that works out to in pages or
pounds or carloads. I wish *everybody* would publish on PDFs -- I think
the DRM stuff can be worked out to the authors', publishers' and
readers' satisfaction.
3. There's also the emotional and probably bogus bit about saving trees.
I heat my home in the winter with junk mail.
James Edward Gray II wrote:
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On May 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David Pollak wrote:
Dave gets my business because I'm buying his book.
Dave gets a lot more of that "business" from those that buy directly
from Dave.
James Edward Gray II
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