** UPDATE Spain have won the world cup, therefore the free book will be jQuery: Novice to Ninja. Exactly the book I was hoping for **
Every so often Sitepoint take it upon themselves to give away a free PDF copy of 1 of their published books. And to celebrate the world cup the are doing the same again.Prior to the PDF being given away free they have a sale ongoing. Each team that has made it to the last 8 has been assigned a book:
- Uruguay “Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS” (OUT)
- Ghana “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” (OUT)
- Brazil “Online Marketing Inside and Out” (OUT)
- Netherlands “Simply JavaScript” (OUT)
- Argentina “The CSS Anthology (3rd Ed.)” (OUT)
- Germany “Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL (4th Ed)” (OUT)
- Paraquay “Sexy Web Design” (OUT)
- Spain “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”
These books currently have a discount of 33%. The sale of course does not stop here. Each team that progresses to the semi final, the book associated with them will have a discount of 66%. And the 2 that end up in the finals will demand a discount of 83%.
Finally the book associated with the team that wins the world cup will become free.
The discounts are only available for 24 hours so if you are hoping that the book you want is going to be free you do run the risk of losing out on the great offer.
For more information visit the Sitepoint Sale page.