>>Do you know if they are doing the "purchase in advance and get beta chapters as they are finished" approach to these 4 new books? I saw no mention of it on the web site, but I'll bet it would be very popular with the client-server title in particular.
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>Not that I've seen. Perhaps a quick email to Whil is in order.

Whil says that there were problems with the "advance-peek" approach, so they will not do that on upcoming books. The Client-Server and several of the other new ones are expected to be ready for New Orleans.