Book looks good, shovelling the subscription at me was annoying and of course I used a throwaway address and unsubscribed immediately. It's actually probably a newsletter I wouldn't mind getting but the way it was done feels too spammy. I have Markus Winand's book SQL Performance Explained, actually paid for the download, and came away feeling cleaner. I do hear something from him through his mailing list once in a great while, and that is fine. I hope he comes out with another book someday.
Not only that, but every other chapter of the "book" ends in: "I have written a more extensive text about this topic on my database focused website ..." pushing their blog.
It's unclear why. If anything, I would expect the more extensive text in the "book".
At any rate, it starts to feel like a wild goose chase after a while and my expectation is that I'll have to fill something else out or watch a ton of ads before being show fluff content if I click on a link in a book that I had to sign up for newsletter to download....
I wouldn't know though because I'd rather whine about it here than actually follow the link :)
Yikes. Yeah I haven't looked at the pdf yet, but the idea of a book is to get all the info in one place, I'd hoped. If every chapter leads me to another web page, the book might as well not be there.
Tpetry, I get the idea that you don't want to give away the book outright. That is fine. Some people do that, but not everyone, and it's ok if you don't. But please, don't put us through this nonsense. Just charge money for the book, and make it so that people who pay up get everything in a single download, no subscriptions, no upsells from individual chapters. I am interested in such a thing, enough to probably be willing to buy a copy. Thanks for your consideration.
