FYI Humble Bundle Hacking and Black Friday

[rfrazier]

Hi all. Just thought I'd pass this along.

Black Friday / Cyber Monday specials on games.

The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.

Choose from thousands of games for PC, Mac, Linux, and Android while supporting a charity of your choice. New games added every day!

www.humblebundle.com

Current bundles.

All Bundles

Our Bundles are limited-time collections of games, books, software, and more. Pay what you want and choose where your money goes, including to charity.

www.humblebundle.com

Hacking bundle of ebooks. I have this and an older edition of the same with cumulatively about 30 ebooks. I think there's 18 in the current bundle. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to read the THOUSANDS of pages. Sigh. So much to learn. So little time.

Humble Book Bundle: Hacking by No Starch Press

Pay what you want to think like a hacker with this ebook bundle from No Starch Press.

www.humblebundle.com

Python O'Reilly bundle of ebooks.

Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by O'Reilly

We’ve teamed up with O’Reilly for our newest bundle. Get ebooks like Introducing Python, 2nd Edition & High Performance Python, 2nd Edition. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!

www.humblebundle.com

Enjoy.

May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast. Ron

 

[PHolder]

I will no longer give Humble any money. They got taken over and they made a bunch of user unfriendly changes, and one thing in particular just irks me... they set it so you can't reduce the percentage they take.

For example, on: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/code-like-pro-manning-publications-books
If you chose the $40CA option, here's their default breakdown:

Default Donation

• CA$22 to Manning Publications
• CA$2 to Charities
• CA$16 to Humble

And the MINIMUM you can allocate to Humble is $12 !! That's 30%, MINIMUM!!

There is NO reason why they deserve 30% or more of all the money that should be going to the charity just for managing the web site and transactions. The maximum amount Stripe should be taking is 5% of the transaction and yet they have the minimum set at 30% so that they can pocket 25% themselves. It's just an ugly, ugly look.

 

[rfrazier]

On one hand I see what you're saying. On the other, I just got 18 hacking books (albeit only electronic format) probably worth over $ 600 for $ 30. I didn't adjust the donation split. Regardless, I really cannot complain. Whether I have time to read them is another matter. So, regardless of the percentage, they have to consider the actual quantity of money they're taking in on these discount deals.

Who took them over anyway. I thought they were run by Nostarch Press, one of my favorite companies.

Here's some info on the money split.

https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/204387088#sliders

I may be wrong about the ownership. Their TOS mentions Ziff Davis.

PS found some more info:

Humble Bundle co-founders stepping down after best year ever

Humble Bundle co-founders Jeffrey Rosen and John Graham have stepped down from their roles as CEO and COO of the compan…

www.gamesindustry.biz

IGN buys Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle has been acquired by IGN. Humble Bundle CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Rosen announced the sale in a blog pos…

www.gamesindustry.biz

May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast. Ron