New Book

[MrTAToad]

My new book is now finished - 430+ pages (without index) of lovely GLBasic technical goodness.

If you could have a look at the PDF file and let me know if there are any errors and/or omissions, that would be useful

[Ian Price]

I've not had a thorough look through it, but I love what I have seen so far. 

Well done. Excellent work. 

Now for Volume II.

[bigsofty]

Great work, very comprehensive and professional. Had a quick scan for the missing commands, that are not in the CHM manual, all seem present. Well done! 

Any idea on cost yet?

Also, a "GLB Techniques" book would be a great follow up IMHO

Cheers,


Ian

P.S. I helped create the manual tutorials many moons ago with Gernot (yes, you can blame me!), its good to see some of them in a book at long last!

[MrTAToad]

Lulu recommend a price of - you better be sitting down - £62.25 ($98.17/E 71.89) excluding VAT and delivery costs

Although I will probably charge a little less...

[Slydog]

I just got a book printed for my mom at:
https://www.createspace.com/
(Her book is: https://www.createspace.com/3463578, I did the cover and layout, ha!)

They charged $4 USD for a 250 page book [Edit: That's with a $40 'Pro' account upgrade to get that price], plus shipping, duty, etc, came to about $8 total maybe.
They sell it on their site for a markup, and can list it through Amazon.com for a smaller profit.

You could order prints yourself and self-market the book, or just get them to handle the sales and they take a portion of the profit.

So far they've been great, and fast.  Just thought I'd mention them.

[MrTAToad]

I'll see what price they recommend

Unfortunately, the maximum number of pages they can do is 250...  So I'll stick with Lulu

[Kitty Hello]

will they provide price offs for making > 25 copies?

Try to contact a few official publishers. (Data Becker in Gemrany - there's surely UK/USA ones out there).

[MrTAToad]

Unfortunately standard book publishers like to go for dead-certs or where there is a fairly large initial cost.

I've contacted one UK publisher so I'll see what they say.

[garyk1968]

My new book is now finished - 430+ pages (without index) of lovely GLBasic technical goodness.

If you could have a look at the PDF file and let me know if there are any errors and/or omissions, that would be useful

where can I get the PDF from please MrT?

[erico]

download the [GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide.rar ] on the first post, extract it and there you are.

[MrTAToad]

Thats right - its in the first post.

Comments and superlative praise quite welcome

[garyk1968]

download the [GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide.rar ] on the first post, extract it and there you are.

Cheers! I didnt see it the first time.

Well smack me for being a dumb mother f****r

O and do you know when the hard copy will be available? Call me old school but still like the physical books.

[MrTAToad]

I'm hoping Gernot will be able to add feedback from the version I sent yesterday, but technically it is ready at any time - once people have made sure its accurate.

Slightly updated version is included in this post

[erico]

I'm checking it, by the way, excellent job you got there! Outstandiest! hehe
thks for sharing too.

[Youkaisan]

I'll buy a digital version for sure, I don't like a printed version since I have an Eee PC as extra reading tool, how much a digital version will cost?