I'm going to make an order for some (print) books from publisher A Book Apart (USA-based) and wondering if anyone wants to go in on the order with me. If I can get 3-5 more books in the order I can save more money (bigger discount) plus split the shipping/brokerage over more books. Win/win if someone else wanted one of these books in print.
A Book Apart just joined O'Reilly for Safari/ebooks (but not print) and they seem to produce excellent products. They seem heavily slanted towards web design (i.e. less programming) yet look interesting/useful enough for a typical do-it-all web site programmer. Their schtick is to make books that are short and concise (100-150 pages usually).
If I can reach the 10 book mark it's roughly $13.75(ca$) a print book (normally $18us), plus shipping (should be only a few bucks a book), plus USPS/CP duties/taxes (should be under $2 a book). So I'm guessing $17.50-ish a book (just a guess). You pay actual costs divided by the book count, no markup.
Here's their catalog, with good writeups and a sample chapter for each:
http://abookapart.com/products/
The ones that look most useful to me are Web Typography and Respnosible Web Design. It's extremely odd, but almost none of these books show up on Amazon/Indigo. I guess they are a really new company trying to break into the mainstream. (I'm in no way affiliated with them.)
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