The newest edition of the book I wanted… The newest edition of the book I wanted wasn't available at the usual retailers (Amazon) until June. So, I ordered direct from Apress. The book was sent from Germany to the UK in 10 working days. Not bad considering the recent logistical issues post Brexit. Overall, the printing of the book is good, all pages are straight and the font sizes are a decent size.

Avoid vendor lock-in with Apress PDF books Apress is the best place to buy computer programming ebooks because they are available in PDF format that can be viewed on any device. I recently wanted to clear my purchase history on Amazon and my only option was to delete my Amazon account and make a new one. I lost several books in the process. Now I try to buy only PDF books exclusively. Apress also has a wide selection of books on almost any programming topic. I have found them to be very informative.

Apress Technical Books The quality of the books provided by Apress is incredible. Most books come with repositories on GitHub which makes learning interactive and fun. If you prefer a good read over online video tutorials, I couldn't recommend any books other than Apress. You won't regret it!

Pretty Good Site and Products, but Could be Better Pretty Good Site and Products, but Could be Better. For the most part, I'm fairly happy with Apress! They have pretty good coverage for most of the tech topics I'm interested in, and even a couple of authors whose books I buy as a given, every year. I would love to see some deep dives into topics like real-word redux, and full-stack JavaScript and DevOps projects with non-trivial examples that are not just regurgitations of online documentation.

Convenient Easy to use, and it was good to be able to download the various ebook formats in one place. I wish though there wasn't a time limit (due to various device issues, accidents, etc) on retrieving the books if you have paid for them, but I have no good or neat recommendation for handling this situation.