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Finding Book Bonus Content

December 20, 2011

For many of my books, bonus content is made available through the publisher. Sometimes this is material that was intended for the book but had to be cut, such as an appendix or a chapter, and sometimes the material is a true bonus, such as a video screencast. Because it’s not clear for everyone how to access this bonus material, I thought I’d quickly post instructions here.

  1. Head to Peachpit.com (almost all of my books are published by Peachpit Press)
  2. Click on Account Sign In at the top of the page.
  3. If you don’t already have an account with Peachpit.com, click the Create a new one… link to register.
  4. After you have registered, login.
  5. On your account page (after logging in), click Registered Products.
  6. On the Registered Products tab, click Register Another Product.
  7. Follow the instructions to register the book.
  8. Return to the Registered Products page.
  9. For the book in question, click the Access Bonus Content link. That will take you to a page with all the bonus content for a given book.

Besides being able to access bonus content, there are other benefits to registering at Peachpit’s site. And while you’re there, you can also check out my author page, which lists the books I’ve written for Peachpit, the articles I’ve published there, and the blog postings I’ve published there. Both the articles and blog postings are viewable without registration or logging in.

I hope that helps anyone having trouble finding the material they’re looking for.

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I’m working on a JavaScript book these days, titled Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design, to be published by Peachpit Press around the end of the year/beginning of 2012. In all modesty, readers have been asking that I write a JavaScript book for a decade now, as there seems to be a lack of good JavaScript books out there (a JavaScript book recommendation is another common request). I believe I’ve read three JavaScript books in the 12 years since I first started using the language:

These are all recommendable books, with their own strengths and weaknesses (I always think of O’Reilly books being technically thorough and excellent, but not great to learn from for beginners.) In skimming some other JavaScript books, not to be named, and working on my own, I’ve been thinking more analytically about why there aren’t more good JavaScript books out there. I’ve come up with two reasons. Continue Reading…