I found the infallible logic of ConkCurrency irresistibly hilarious (not a good thing).
Neither is an Ad-hominem attack a good thing.
Why wouldn’t you be able to purchase an ebook in India from the site in US? You can most certainly get a PDF.
You missed the whole point - fair price as an instrument against copyright infringement, so to speak.
The fact that there are EEE’s shows that publishers hold the concept of variable pricing valid. It’s older than at least two decades.
You can also find the same material online: regular expressions in all shapes and sizes.
As if this post is only about regular expressions. It appears to be more about the book. You seem to have realised that - talking of clicks and whatever else - but not put 2 and 2 together - to realise the comment was about fair price based on lifestyle.
If your Feds screw up any further, it wont sound so hilarious. Trust me, it won’t. Check out what happened to Brazil and Japan in the late 90s.
There are countless places to learn regex for free on today’s web. Does Jeff not know that? Sure he does. I know that too. But this is a good time to get good people - authors of a book on a strictly hacker realm - to read about and take note of this bigger problem which they may not have given a priority to. And in general to increase awareness of this issue. India is one country.
The dollar is expensive in many more countries - many that do not take outsourced jobs from you, so you have no reason to perceive a threat from them.
Do you realise that if everyone outside US/UK buys these books at small prices, authors still stand to gain more money?
This is also a nice way to reciprocate the freebies they give us - in clear words, suggesting a way from which they could get that much more income and thus more encouragement to produce better works.
All this thought goes behind writing a simple suggestion. If you do not give a new idea any thought, how are you going to invent anything?
Apologies for the personal response.