Comments on: Now How Much Would You Pay?

By: trooper09

trooper09 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:49:52 +0000

I know this is a rather old blog entry. So I bought the third edition book and 4 months later the kindle edition arrived. My only request is updating the blog to give us a head’s up when you are planning on releasing the fourth edition, so we can trade/sell our books for a lot more money to buy the newest edition. I’d appreciate it.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:08:23 +0000

Well, I know we’re not planning on a 4th edition this year for sure – I’m working on revising another book. While publishers like to have a new edition every few years, we’ve been going by two informal rules: “has the GPU significantly changed?” and “have we forgotten the pain and stress of putting out a new edition?” Right now I don’t think the GPU’s massively different than it was 4 years ago. There’s DirectCompute and so on, but this is not really mainstream. So a third rule will probably kick in at some point, “is enough of the material in the current edition embarrassingly out of date?” I’m personally not quite there yet.

By: haffax

haffax — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:32:47 +0000

Personally I prefer an actual book. I own a copy of the second edition, one of my most used books. I’d buy the real book version of the 4th edition the moment it becomes available. Which is when exactly? I could buy the 3rd edition, but by now it is out for so long that I fear the 4th edition is going to get out the day after I bought 3rd one. So, I’m going to wait for next edition. Bring it on already!