Comments on: Book Review: Foundation Blender Compositing

By: sympodius

sympodius — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:07:34 +0000

@Papasmurf: Any update on the book coming to the blender e-shop?

By: TonyM

TonyM — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:07:37 +0000

The book sounds great. Congratulations again, Roger, on getting that done! Also, thanks to Terry for all these helpful book reviews!

By: ROUBAL

ROUBAL — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:44:32 +0000

Thanks for the info : Ordered today !o)

By: sympodius

sympodius — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:44:56 +0000

@Papasmurf: That’s great news! Thanks for letting us know.

By: Papasmurf

Papasmurf — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:11:19 +0000

@sympodius et al: I’ve been working directly with Ton and Apress for Ton to sell the book via e-shop. It should be available this or next week.

Thanks for the book review, Terry, Joel, and M. Carson. I’m so happy you enjoy it Byron! From whatever venue you purchased it from, please copy/enter your review there for others to see. If you are considering purchasing the book, please rate the reviews in Amazon (as useful) as that helps it in the search engine when others are selecting a book. I would hope it filters over into non-Blender users as well who are looking for a book on compositing, and gets them Blendering!

By: sympodius

sympodius — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:58:16 +0000

@Terry: Although I would love to have this book NOW, I think I’ll wait a little while and see if it ends up in the Blender shop. I try to get my books there whenever possible too. Mind you, I’ve been waiting for that Roland D. Hess book for a while.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:09:35 +0000

Looks great.
Unfortunately from amazon it costs more in Â£ in the UK than it does in $ in the US.
ie twice as much
I might have to pick it up next time I’m in the US.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:27:12 +0000

**the above should of said doesn’t.

One day I will learn to type! (probably)

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:26:06 +0000

Although another quick scan and at least one book does appear to be in the Blender E-Shop:

Roland D. Hess – Animating with Blender – Book and DVD

Strange.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:16:44 +0000

Hi,

sympodius: It’s almost certain to end up in the Blender E-Shop eventually as it is on amazon so they don’t have an exclusive deal on it from the looks of it, and the books part of the Apress group and they are huge. Thing is though the Blender E-Shop usually lags behind on getting books that are not official Blender Foundation books.

It would be interesting to see what the process is for the Blender E-Shop to stock particular books.

Personally If I can, I always try and get books from Blender E-Shop rather than amazon but the delay in them getting none Blender Foundation books means I often have no choice if I don’t want to wait. Shame really, as I feel much better about buying a book if I know that some of the money goes towards Blender development (which any book bought from the Blender E-Shop does).

Also looking at the Blender E-Shop now, as far as i can tell every book that has even been released is in there.