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Scott and I currently have the #1 Oracle cert book on Amazon

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Scott and I currently have the #1 Oracle cert book on Amazon and the #20 Java book overall from our OCA 8 book. Granted this is misleading since it is a “book just came out” sales bump. But still really cool. It’s also cool to see questions like this one where you can see the reader understands or has a question about a subtle detail.

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And thank you to everyone who has been sending us Errata.We are keeping a list on our OCA 8 book page. So far they are minor (typo things that don’t affect content.) Still, it’s good to have a list. That way we can fix them if there is a second printing or we write a Java 9 cert book! Plus if you are puzzled about whether it something is a typo, it is likely someone else reported it!

 

 

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got to touch my book!

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I got to hold a printed copy of our OCA Java 8 Programmer I Study Guide book today!

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I haven’t gotten my copies from the publisher yet. However, I did get to borrow a copy from Elena who bought it on Amazon. Borrowing your own book feels weird. It was awesome to get to show it to people today though! Yay!

I also learned that the stray character in the assessment exam is not a problem in the print edition.

OCA 8 book now printed

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We got our first reported of someone receiving a printed copy of our OCA 8 Study Guide today. She pre-ordered it on Amazon.com some time back. She lives in the United States (in NY). I expect it will take the book longer to get delivered outside the US.

Amazon also lists it as being in stock instead of out of stock. (It was listed as pre-order before the e-book came out. After that, it was listed as out of stock. Even though it was out of stock because it hadn’t printed yet.)

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I also found it interesting that used book sellers list themselves on books they don’t have. Two of them started listing way before the book printed which meant it was impossible for them to have it. And a good number of them list for a price point higher than Amazon.  Weird.