"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.343.1279145587.24349.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com...
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 14:59:54 Mike James wrote:
>> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.342.1279143025.24349.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com...
>>
>> > On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:16:11 Mike James wrote:
>> >> The downladable version appears in the "Tokens & Downloads" tab of My Safari when I log on. Have you got that Tab?
>> >>
>> >> -=mike=-
>> >
>> > Do actually pay for a safari subscription? I didn't have a safari
>> > account
>> > before
>> > this, and I'm running into the same problem as strtr, so I'm wondering
>> > if
>> > that's
>> > the difference. Though if that's the case, it seems pretty messed up to
>> > me. I
>> > have no interest in shelling out on a safari subscription to get what
>> > is
>> > supposed to be a free download.
>> >
>> > - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> I didn't have a subscription - just the free 30-day by entering the
>> access
>> code printed in the back of TDPL.
>>
>> -=mike=-
>
> *Sigh* It was reasonable guess, even if it was wrong. I guess that Safari
> just
> loves you and hates us then. ;)
>
> Maybe I should contact them and complain (about the problem, not that it
> loves
> you).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

They only love me short time (30 days) :-)

-=mike=-

On 13/07/2010 12:13, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 21:14, Rory McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>> You got yours already? That's odd.
>>> Hum, I checked the InformIT again, search for TDPL, and there are two
>>> "books" listed, the roughs cuts, and final one. That's odd, only the
>>> final one should appear. Do you know which one you purchased, are you
>>> sure it was the rough cuts?
>>>
>>
>> Okay it wasn't rough cuts, I went to andre's site which used to show
>> a huge picture of his kid with the book and clicked on a link to informit
>> from there, that page seems to have changed but here the link to
>> informit:
>> http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321635361
>>
>> I clicked on the Buy button next to the Book. Was shipped within 24
>> hours, got it
>> within 7 days or so and I'm in South Africa (Amazon says it takes a
>> month to deliver).
>
> Ah, that explains it. Anyways I contacted InformIT/SafariBooks support,
> and they sorted it out, I now have the final version listed in my
> account, and they said the print book has been ordered. Dunno when it
> will arrive, but it should be too late from now.
> (In any case I'm not in any particular hurry to read it, not that I'm
> not interested, its just that I'm quite busy, and particularly I'm still
> in the middle of reading two other books :p ).
>
>

Ok, just got mine. Not a "collectors edition", although it seems at the moment this version is the rarer one :P
Anyways, now I "just" need to find the time to read the book... :o

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer

On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 15:13:16 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Maybe I should contact them and complain (about the problem, not that it
> loves you).

Well, they don't seem to think downloading the pdf is part of the deal - only reading it online for the 30 days (which, of course, is pretty much useless). Their response:

--------------
Thank you for contacting Safari Books.

I'm very sorry for the confusion. The coupon provided in the book is only to read the book online and try out our service. the coupon does not include the ability to download the book from the website. Unfortunately, due to restrictions placed on us by the publisher, we can not make an electronic copy of the book available in such a manner.

The line that you referenced is not supposed to be associated with the coupon offer. Instead, it is a marketing piece to advertise our service with the coupon being the chance to try it our for free.

Again, I'm very sorry for the confusion.

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
--------------

So, it looks like anyone who actually got a pdf out of safari online lucked out somehow.

- Jonathan M Davis

== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisprog@gmail.com)'s article
> So, it looks like anyone who actually got a pdf out of safari online lucked out somehow.

Or are all into the successful ploy to get us to try it ;)

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:11 +0100, Mike James wrote:

> The downladable version appears in the "Tokens & Downloads" tab of My Safari when I log on. Have you got that Tab?
> 
> -=mike=-


Is it the whole book or a chapter?

All I got there is: "You have not requested any downloads. Click the download icon in the Content Reader toolbar to redeem download tokens and request content for offline viewing."

And download icons are only for chapters. Each costs one token, but I got only one "promotional token" which will expire in 9 days.


-- 
serg.

"Serg Kovrov" <%LASTNAME%@gmail.com> wrote in message news:i3bmk0$18tp$1@digitalmars.com...
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:11 +0100, Mike James wrote:
>
>> The downladable version appears in the "Tokens & Downloads" tab of My Safari when I log on. Have you got that Tab?
>>
>> -=mike=-
>
>
> Is it the whole book or a chapter?

It was the whole book My trial period has expired so I can't re-check. I couldn't download it right away. The pdf was watermarked with my name and I was sent an email to allow me to download the finished book.

>
> All I got there is: "You have not requested any downloads. Click the download icon in the Content Reader toolbar to redeem download tokens and request content for offline viewing."
>
> And download icons are only for chapters. Each costs one token, but I got only one "promotional token" which will expire in 9 days.
>
>
> -- 
> serg.
>
>