On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mikael Ståldal wrote:

I recently brought the book GIMP 2.6 Cookbook.

When opening the book, I was very disappointed that all the numerous images inside the book was printed in black/white, no color at all except on the cover.

I find it outright stupid to print such a book without color. I have other books with full color which wasn't significally more expensive (such as Beginning GIMP).

Don't buy this book.

So where is the review?

P.S. The PDF they sell is in full color. And "wasn't significally more expensive" doesn't really say anything.

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Mikael Ståldal wrote:

P.S. The PDF they sell is in full color. And "wasn't significally more expensive" doesn't really say anything.

OK, let's see at Amazon.com:

Beginning GIMP (full color, 557 pages)    $31.17 GIMP 2.6 Cookbook (no color, 393 pages)   $38.19

So I was wrong, the book in color is actually cheaper and the GIMP 2.6 Cookbook is quite expensive compared to other books about GIMP.

Yes, you were wrong indeed. Except not the way you think you were :)

2nd edition of "Beginning GIMP" was published in 2008, while the book in question is from 2011. Discounts tend to grow as books grow older.

Beginning GIMP was $49.99 originally GIMP 2.6 Cookbook was $40.49 originally.

Also please note that Packt gives part of the revenue to GIMP project. AFAIK , Apress doesn't do it.

P.S. So where is the review? :)

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Mikael Ståldal wrote:

I see that there is an eBook version of this book available. Is that also without color?

As already pointed out in an earlier mail, it's in full color.

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On Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:50:09 am Mikael Ståldal wrote:

On 2011-06-26 15:11, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

2nd edition of "Beginning GIMP" was published in 2008,

while the book

in question is from 2011. Discounts tend to grow as

books grow older.

Beginning GIMP was $49.99 originally GIMP 2.6 Cookbook was $40.49 originally.

Fair enough, but considering the difference in page

number I guess that

printing it in color would have made it at most 10

percent more expensive.

So I still think it was outright stupid to print it

without color.

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Mikael Ståldal wrote:

I recently brought the book GIMP 2.6 Cookbook.

So here I was, looking forward to a Gimp book review, and all I get is this tripe about B&W illustrations... (as if that even matters).

worst... book review... ever!

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