Hello Dave,
there are two problems with paper books:
Firstly, the publisher, the distributor, the book shop all want to earn some money. The actual writer is not paid much, you cannot live from this. It is acutally barfaced (I hope the
word is correct) what the writer gets at the end.
Second, I want to provide updates to the eBook. 3 months of updates are at least included and one larger update is guarantied per 3 months. So I can add the newest release information, add chapters about interesting topics (Hibernate and Stored Prodedure, Annotations, etc) or include ideas provided by other people, saying: you must include this tipp about Oracle Stored Procedure with Hibernate etc.
The second one is impossible to do with a paper book. I like paper as well and print ebooks from time to time. Apart from this I started using a second monitor. eBook on my right,
IDE on my left. This works fine.
Best Regards Sebastian
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