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We finished writing the book in January.

We finished editing and rewriting it in February.

We submitted the final (pre-formatted-and-copy-edited) content to the publisher weeks ago.

Yet still, it feels like the book wasn't real until it showed up on Amazon. Here's the draft of the cover:

Note the "July 2007" release date. Note also that the final Harry Potter book is also due to be released in July. Mere coincidence? Perhaps Ms. Rowling is just trying to catch the wake of our immense marketing plans and blinding success in the consumer reader space. I expect bundling deals on Amazon are in the works ("Buy Harry Potter with Filthy Rich Clients today for the low price of ...", "Be a Swing wizard!", ...).

We're hoping to have something releasable in time for JavaOne, but it looks like it might be a "rough cut" (beta version, download for purchase) and possibly a beta book version at the show. But in any case, the real thing should be widely available by July (due to contract stipulations with Ms. Rowling's publisher over co-bundling deals, for one thing).

Comments

• So are you going to be selling it at a nice discount at JavaOne? Even better offering free versions? :-)

  Posted by: augusto on March 22, 2007 at 02:25 PM

• "free versions"?

  price != 0

  They typically have some show-deal on books, and if we have a 'beta' book at the show it'd be even cheaper (I assume). But I really have no idea....

  Posted by: chet on March 22, 2007 at 03:17 PM

• Even better would be giving people money along with a free copy of the book. Wouldn't it be just peachy... Why are people not asking for that, i wonder.

  Posted by: kirillcool on March 22, 2007 at 03:24 PM

• What about using rough-cuts?
  Safari online rough-cuts
  Hot NetBeans RCP platform book is there prior to J1,
  http://safari.informit.com/9780132354806
  Peter

  Posted by: peterblazejewicz on March 22, 2007 at 04:12 PM

• peter: That's being considered (thus my mention of something called "rough cut" in the blog...)

  Posted by: chet on March 22, 2007 at 04:14 PM

• kirill;

  That's a great idea, after all the book is called "filthy rich" clients, if it comes with a check it would surely be a hit.

  Chet, on a more serious note I was asking about the discounted version because it's going to be in "beta" form. Would hate to pay full price if the book is going to change a lot, maybe should just wait until it's all finalized ...

  The cover looks great!

  Posted by: augusto on March 22, 2007 at 05:11 PM

• augusto: understood. As I understand it, if there's a 'beta' version of the book, it would be at a discounted price (because of the reasons you cite). So for the people that want it at the conference, at least there's something available, and hoepfully at a discount from the full price for the fully finished book. But for those that can wait untili July, the real one will be out then...

  Posted by: chet on March 22, 2007 at 05:14 PM

• Any discount for preorderers?

  Posted by: sumitkishore on March 22, 2007 at 07:09 PM

• Looks like it'll be released just in time for my birthday. Aww, how did you guys know? ;)

  Posted by: nlloyd on March 23, 2007 at 05:24 AM

• Is it open source :-) I think Harry would approve of that.

  Posted by: aronsmith on March 23, 2007 at 02:09 PM

• Hey Chet, with the book done, shouldn't TimingFramework 1.0 be done as well? ;)

  Posted by: sialivi on March 24, 2007 at 05:18 PM

• sialivi: Don't worry, that's the plan; the Timing Framework will be 1.0 when the book is released. But there's a difference between the book being 'done' and being 'released'. In any case, I hope to have the framework rev'd to 1.0 by JavaOne. No major changes in the works, although I'm considering adding some simple API to allow input from an external timer (upon request of some folks that needed a high res timer or non-GUI timer). So the current version (.54) is pretty close to what will be 1.0 in any case...

  Posted by: chet on March 24, 2007 at 05:22 PM

• Chet,
  Do you provide any CD contains the demos along with Book.If not, it would be fine you provide a CD containing demos used in the book .
  

  Posted by: dhilshuk on March 29, 2007 at 08:33 PM

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