Packt publishing ebook offer

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NotAllThere replied

3 January 2013, 09:10
Offer ends today, in fact. So still time to fill your eboots.
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d000hg replied

2 January 2013, 17:11
Isn't that normal NF, to avoid VAT going all the way round the houses?

Regarding Kindle, they list Kindle as an option for the books I bought - I have PDF, mobi & kindle as well as a "send to kindle" link but they sell these titles as Kindle books when I was checking their reviews on Amazon, so possibly this is title-specific?

And yes the site is shocking... the front-end is fine but I got 502/503 errors, page load timeouts, etc. The one on the final stage of payment was especially annoying - do I hit F5 or not - but everything appears to be OK if I can just get to download the files!

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NickFitz replied

2 January 2013, 15:27
Hmm, they seem to have made a mistake with my order

I added three ebooks to my cart, and it showed the subtotal as £9, plus £1.80 VAT, making a grand total of £10.80. All correct, thought I, and went to checkout.

Then I elected to pay via PayPal, and the system only sent the subtotal through to PayPal's payments system, meaning I didn't pay the VAT

Now downloading my files before they realise…
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administrator replied

2 January 2013, 15:09
Just bumping this as the offer closes today. Considering the hard-copy books sell for £20-40 then £3 for the PDF / ebook is pretty good value. You can also send the ebook to your kindle once you set it properly
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administrator replied

23 December 2012, 11:56
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

Their site is a bitch, but thanks, bought a few for peanuts.

Ay, not a good advertisement for their web books as they can't seem to get their own site working Managed to spend £50 somehow
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realityhack replied

23 December 2012, 00:31
Their site is a bitch, but thanks, bought a few for peanuts.
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administrator started a topic Packt publishing ebook offer

22 December 2012, 23:43
Packt publishing ebook offer

Should post in technical but thought more people might see it here over Xmas. Packt publishing offering ebooks for £3 +VAT each when you buy more two or more.
Seasonal eBook Offer - Buy 2 or more $5 each | Packt Publishing

This is 70-80% off most of the ones I have just bought. Or would do if their site wasn't being such a dog
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