Life & fun · November 19, 2016
My new book “Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook” released with CC license
The publishers web page is https://leanpub.com/haskell-cookbook The book is for sale for a minimum price of $4, available to read online, and the PDF, Kindle, and iPad versions are released under a Creative Commons share and share alike with attribution, no commercial reuse license so you can share with your friends (legally, and with my blessings). I have released books before with a free version and still made enough in sales to support writing new books.
My new book “Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook” released with CC license launched on November 19, 2016 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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