Great news! Will there be a PDF, or e-book version of the full book when it is finished?

Amazon have just told me the printed book will be shipped on 26 Sept – that’s moved earlier than the original 24 Oct date when I ordered it a few months ago.

Bought it and now I can’t get my grandson to eat his evening meal – he’s “absorbing” the ebook – his words. Reading over his shoulder, I can see this as the ideal introduction to Pi, rather than wading through all the fora and such. It reminds me of the BBC Micro and Commodore VIC-20 days.

Well done guys – a major step forward in the original objective. The 8-year old beside me has suddenly taken a shine to programming instead of just playing computer games.

Hey

Does this mean that you can buy a the full version as a paper book ? If yes ISBN ?

Good News ! Congrats to Eben & Gareth !

The amazon.co.uk version, linked in the article, is only available to UK customers.

The amazon.com version shows me a $9.19 price.
http://www.amazon.com/Meet-the-Raspberry-Pi-ebook/dp/B008MYLMMQ/

Are there any plans for a Apple iBooks Store version ? At least they have consistent prices.

Already got this, read it over the weekend. As I am not a Linux expert it helped no end.

Many thanks.

Surely it should have been priced 15 pence less? ;-)

Just bought the iBook version for € 3,99.

Scanning a few pages it looks great to me ;-)

This ebook is also available from the Google play store… $6.99 Australian.

I’ll read the comments shortly, but I am curious as to whether anyone has successfully downloaded the book “Meet the Raspberry Pi” to the Kindle App on an iPad? It downloaded to the Kindle program on my PC without a problem, but it keeps getting an error when I try to download it to the iPad.

Thanks

Will it be available in any other e-book formats?

Great! Just got a copy via Amazon Germany for 3.60 €.
Are there also plans to translate this book into other languages?
Specifically, I would be interested in a German version for my older and younger family members :-)
If there are no plans yet, I would assume that there are many volunteers in the online crowd, including myself, who would like to help to translate into various languages. That said, I know nothing about the legal aspects of translating a book.

Lovely book – very readable, and there are some nice linux tips in there as well (and I now realise there are lots of linux commands I just type blindly without much context!). Just one bit of feedback – on the Kindle the screenshots of the Console (white text on black background) are quite difficult to read – I’d suggest either writing them out and formatting them as monospace or reversing the images to make them clearer. (If you need a volunteer I’d happily do this for you! – I format ebooks as part of my job).

I have chatted with Amazon support. They have referred the book back to Engineering and it may have to go back to the e-book publisher. I’ll post more when I know.

I read the review of the latest raspberry book with interest this morning but… That was short lived.
The misguided drive by governments and business to protect us from information outside our countries continues to grow. Imagine my surprise when kindle informed me I can’t buy either version of the book as it’s not available in North America.
I’ve heard many arguments defending this ridiculous censorship but in my mind there is NO excuse that is valid.
Sorry for the dark nature of this article but after my dismal experience with kindle fire in Canada I am fed up with this situation.

Jim

Amazon UK does not allow for orders coming from other countries (I’m in Italy). They redirect you to Amazon.it that is not offering the ebook. Can you do anything about it?

Any chance of releasing this in a non-DRM ebook format?

Congratulations to you all. Just bought the Kindle version for My Galaxy tablet. Still stuck in the Virtual Pi world but having a ball.
Cheers

Awesome, now I only need to wait for the RaspberryPI whose estimated delivery is 11 weeks :|

When and where will the “meet the strawberry pi” book be available in the USA

Great, but when I search Apple iBook store from Sweden it does not show up. Is it available in all regions? Don’t want the Kindle format but ePub instead as from Apple.

How about a Nook version. Not everybody has (or wants) a kindle or the app.

I like it. As a computer-literate but Linux-averse newbie, this book could have saved me many hours and a fair bit of head scratching if I’d had it when my Pi was fresh out of the box. As noted by Pete Taylor the screenshots don’t work too well on Kindle, rendered as grey on grey, but apart from that it’s all good.

The book seems sensibly organised and is written in a clear, straightforward style. Above all, it’s a proper book created and written by knowledgeable enthusiasts – those accustomed to the mish-mash of recycled data sheets and web pages that sometimes passes for publishing in the hobbyist world will know what I mean.

I look forward to the full version, in hard copy. Much as I love my Kindle for reading, I prefer paper for technical and reference books: they are easier to flip through and, for me, paper bookmarks work better than electronic ones. In the meantime, though, this eBook version is a good three pounds’ worth.

Gareth and Eben have done a decent job.

Is there going to be a printed paper edition? I haven’t got a kindle and don’t plan to buy one.

I understand this is the beginners version of the book and a more detailed version is on its way. Will the updated version replace our current digital version or will it be a completely different release/book?

Hi,
I’m so far in the wilds, my internet download of Raspian – wheezy – is projected at about 2 hours. Is there any way I can purchase a disk with this software?

ps Don’t mean to be offensive but can Liz turn backwards – she’s distracting my typing – its gone from bad to useless!!
Just in case I forgot – I think Raspberry Pi is magic – I’m not into programmng but I love building hardware – am I excluded from your club?
All the best – I follow most of the streams,
Hugh

Finally getting round to buying a RPi – might have a bit of a wait for the delivery. Just checked for cases, now looking at this book. Amazon UK are charging 250% of the RS price for the board – what a cheek!

I think I’ll go for an epub format, as there is an addon for Firefox that will read those

I downloaded the book from Amazon, and have been reading it on my Kindle Fire. For a computer book, this one is surprisingly well written. The explanations are well-considered, and they provide plenty of detail. For example, the discussion on Video explains how to change from NTSC to PAL, tells me that NTSC is the default, and explains the difference. Good job, and a kudos to each of the authors. (No, I don’t speak Greek).