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by David Heinemeier Hansson.
Original Post: First Rails book sells 1K+ in opening week
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Holy smoly! The Agile Web Development with Rails book as sold more than 1,000 copies in just the first week available. And it's not even finished! Thank all of you who bought the book (and even more if you picked up the combo-pack). It's great to see that releasing the unpolished version now, with the promise of a clean version later, was accepted so broadly.
It's also a great sign of encouragement for the ecosystem of paid content around Rails. Books are certainly the primary outlet for that, but I hope we'll soon see other sources emerge, too. I've been pimping various ideas left and right on that.
So once again, thanks everybody. Rails is in stronger shape than ever and the race towards 1.0 is surely in.
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