$5 E-books at Packt

Packt Publishing [1] is offering $5 (USD) e-books when two or more are purchased through 3 January 2013. Their Stock Your Reader for Christmas page [2] contains the details and I have included a snapshot of that here.

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I've had my eye on a few of Packt's books, but wasn't sure how much time I'd have to read them. However, at $5 a piece, it was an easy decision to purchase them, even if I'm only able to browse them and read the most interesting portions. To take advantage of the deal, two of more e-books must be purchased. Fortunately, all of the Packt Publishing books appear to be part of this deal rather than a limited selection. As the next two screen snapshots indicate, I was able to purchase six e-books of interest to me for $30 (USD).

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I don't know how good each of these books is, but at $5 per book, it wasn't much of a gamble. As the screen snapshots above indicate, I ended up purchasing Play Framework Cookbook [6] (August 2011), HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook [7] (February 2012), PhoneGap Beginner's Guide [8] (September 2011), EJB 3.1 Cookbook [9] (June 2011), Apache Maven 3 Cookbook [10] (August 2011), and Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server [11] (July 2010). I am tempted to go back and purchase the PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook [12] (October 2012) e-book and, because you need at least two for the $5 each deal, I may be "forced" to purchase HTML5 Canvas Cookbook [13] (November 2011) as well. For the typical price of a single book, I am able to get 6 to 8 books in a variety of subjects with this offer.

Original posting available at http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/ [14] (Inspired by Actual Events)