Flex books in India
I have been exploring Flex for a little over a year now and all through this time I never had a chance to read an actual book on Flex or ActionScript 3 …. Why ? …. well because until recently there was no Flex book available in India. Every time I went to book stores around Bangalore looking for some Flex book, I would return disappointed as the people at the book stores would’ve never heard of the term Flex and when I mentioned ActionScript they would point me to the old Flash books.
A couple of weeks back on Raghu’s Flex Wednesday someone in the chat window pointed out that ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook was now available in Delhi and coincidently i had plans to visit Delhi the weekend after that so I decided to get myself a copy. The bookstore i went to was the New Book Depot in Connaught Place … i went in, asked for books on Adobe Flex and to my surprise this guy was aware of the subject, but he regretfully told me that although many people had been asking for books on that topic he does not have any. Then I asked him for books on ActionScript 3 and …. he had the ActionScript 3 CookBook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall and Keith Peters available, I got very excited at the prospect of finally finally getting to read an actual book on Flex/AS3 and I got myself a copy. Like most O’Reilly books this book is also being sold as a low price edition in India which is good ’cause I did not have to shell out half a month’s rent to get it.
The goodness and usefulness of this book is already well established so I’m just gonna say its awesome and I simply love it.
What I would like to do here is to give a shout out to the authors Joey, Darron, Kieth and the publishers for making this available in India … Thank you Guys 
….. and at the same time I would request authors and publishers of other Flex books to please make their books available in India as well. I also hope that Adobe can somehow help with this.
July 5th, 2007
but still programming flex 2.0 and other books are not lunched in Indian market
July 5th, 2007
Bhavin,
That is one of the main reasons I made this post … hopefully the authors, publishers and Adobe are listening and they would do something about this …. to help promote Flex in India.
July 5th, 2007
Hope they will lunch as soon as possible
(Y)
July 6th, 2007
Mrinal,
We got two flex book in mumbai “Programming flex 2″ by Chafic Kazoun & joey Latt and the book you mentioned “Actionscript cookbook 3.0″. They are published under the Shroff Publications.
July 6th, 2007
Thanks for the info Vijay … I would love to read Programming Flex 2 .. let me try and find out which book store keeps Shroff Publications’ books in Bangalore
July 6th, 2007
Hi Mrinal,
I have been watching your blog for quite some time now, and u take a pat on your back from my end. Its too good.
I wanted to add one more point in here. If you go on rediff shopping, you will also get AS cook book 3.0 for 475 bucks only.
So those who like to shop from homw this will be a great idea.
July 6th, 2007
Hi Rahul,
Thank you for your kind words of appreciation
… I’m very glad you like what i write.
Oh and I forgot to mention the price in the article … I bought ActionScript 3 Cookbook .. over the counter for Rs.475 as well.
July 6th, 2007
Really thanks for info. guys…i have been goin mad on this…tried so many times but returned home empty handed.
Now got little hope as its available here..think still we got wait gud time to get “Professional Adobe Flex 2″…
Flex 3 is on release but here in India still we are lagging n not gettin stuffs for previous version.
July 14th, 2007
I have got the book for Rs.380 by post
. I think the main cause of not getting this book in india again proves the famous demand and supply theory of economics.I have expressed the same at http://debabrataa.blogspot.com/2007/05/actionscript-30-cookbook-in-india.html
Hope things will improve for us !!
July 15th, 2007
Deb, the demand is a lot more than the supply in this case … I hope this improves soon
July 16th, 2007
I want to help get as many Flex and AS books as possible onto the shelves in India bookstores. Since I dont live in India, I dont know what books are available now. How about we put up a list on flex-india.org of those books that we want to have available in India? Might be helpful to also list those cities and bookstores where we know AS and Flex books can be found. What do you think?
July 17th, 2007
Hi John,
Thank you for replying and showing interest in addressing this.
This sounds like a good plan, I am going to start a wish-list thread right away on flex-india.
September 11th, 2007
Hi Mrinal,
can you please tell me how did u buy this book, I need to purchase this for the office. you can e mail it to me at rochelle.fernandes@magnettechnologies.com. I would really appreciate it. Also If you can send in the address of the store or a contact number as well.
Thanks
October 29th, 2007
Action Script is a new language to create flash animation. He is not fabulos but after 10 years will be a majotiry language on the web.
March 25th, 2008
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