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This is awesome, I can't wait for this to go into print, so I can pay you for your work! But in the meantime, many thanks for writing this.

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It is pretty much never going to be printed. The book has to remain available for free and never for profit according to the deal I've taken internally with Heroku to work on it.

The only way it gets printed is if Heroku decides it feels like allocating time and resources getting this printed by working with a publisher, which is way outside our usual line of work there.

I don't see the incentive for the corporation to do this, financially or otherwise.

Ok, I'll more copies of learnyousomeerlang instead :)

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to make it available on Lulu.com or something?

I read the online version of LYSE and it really helped me understand the language and how to use it. Additionally you've helped answer questions along the way and have always been a big contributor to the community.

I've just bought a hard copy of LYSE to say thanks. I own almost no physical books these days, but you are worth it. Thank you!

Any chance it could be made available in HTML format? Converting to epub is much easier that way...

I tried tools like pandoc and they promptly choked on the latex. Every code sample that had an _ was problematic, and that issue likely didn't come alone.

is it possible to put the source files on gitub (i ask because the book is CC licensed. I understand if you are not keen on that idea.), so that i can take a gander at converting it using pandoc?

I'll possibly do it. I have to think.

The issues I can see with putting the source itself open is receiving pull reqs, which quickly turn into an issue of copyrights and form-waiving and all kind of stuff I'm not comfortable running around with.

I have a friend who's currently playing with making the conversion work with far more determination than I have, though.

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