Just briefly looking at the topics index list, I don't see anything about macros (or even meta-programming). Was this done on purpose? Should we expect a sequel if this does well?
The ToC only includes what was released to Rough Cuts this time around. We're pushing up a large backlog of content into one end of Rough Cuts on Monday (including a chapter on macros); it'll hopefully come out the other side so you can see it before the end of the week.
According to our editor, the book will be available for the Kindle as a special "Kindle Edition" through Amazon, and will otherwise be available online in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats. This apparently[1] goes for the Rough Cut as well. Here's a link detailing what is downloadable, when, how, with a video demo'ing the content download functionality:
[1] FYI, I have an "author's" account on Safari, and the privs for it seem to not include book downloads, so I've not been able to verify this for myself.
Not one of the authors but I have a ton of oreilly books and the ones I have all got a mobi version at some point. Though the impression I get is the rough cuts is pdf only.
Yeah for some reason oreilly doesn't use the same system for final books and rough cuts. Rough cuts are on safari, their online book library service, while regular books are just available from oreilly.com. I think it's because each rough cut is generated for one user.
I wish they could unify those a little. At least have Safari generate books in multiple formats.
