Question on B. Brundage's Missing manual

Hi
I have pse 3. I see the Missing Manual by B. Brundage is out now. I would like to buy a copy. Would I be better off with her previous edition 3 or does the new edition highlight what is applicable to the new version of pse
thanks
Neil

Well, I hope this is okay with Jim. (Jim, feel free to pull this if you consider it out of bounds.)
The PE 4 book does cover the new tools, color management options, slide show editor, etc. in PE 4. For Neil, my answer was that if he plans to continue using PE 3 he should get the PE 3 edition of the book, but that if he plans to upgrade to PE 4 in the near future he shouldn't be too confused by the PE 4 book, since PE 4 doesn't require any radical changes in editing strategies, and the Missing Manual is more focused on editing as opposed to organizing (which is where the bulk of the PE3->PE4 changes happened.)

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We having been using Photoshop Elements 2. For Christmas my daughter and I got my wife a Wacom Tablet. On one of the disks that came with the tablet was Elements 4. Very nice. So I figured I would get Barbara Brundage's Missing Manual book, but the book is now out of print and because Elements 5 is out, the publisher will not be reprinting. So congratulations to Barbara for writing a very popular book. (By the way, the missing manual for elements 3 is still available). So my question is, does anyone know where I can get a copy of said book. At this point used is fine.

My local bookstore tried to order it and they couldn't because all of their suppliers listed it as out of print, and they have ordered many books for me successfully in the past. Three stores on the web who were out of it informed me via email that they wouldn't be getting any more copies. See this reply as an example:
> Unfortunately, the book in question is out of stock at the
> publisher's warehouse and has been for several months. It'll not
> be reprinted as the Elements 5 book is out / released. In other
> words, the Elements 4 Missing Manual book is, essentially,
> "Out of Print" or very near it.
> We will not be getting more copies in stock. I apologize.
I am unwilling to put in an order to Amazon unless I can get a firm date of shipping, also, and I quote "if you still prefer to use a credit card, we recommend that you enter your full account number". I do not give my bank account number out if I can help it.
When I tried to order the book from one of their affiliates who listed the book as in stock, I got this message: "*** We're sorry. The quantity you requested is no longer available. The number to the right is the maximum quantity currently available. ***" That number was zero.
I think you might get in touch with your publisher and find out just what is the status on this book. I could find out nothing on the publishes web site. I could find no way of determining if the book was available before I put in an order there, and I don't like ordering blind either by phone or over the web.
The fact is, as far as I can tell, and I have spent 4 hours on this, is no one has your book in stock, except maybe the publisher, but they're not telling. Amazon lists the book, but they don't have it in stock. They are promising to ship it in 4 to 6 weeks. That means, according to them, they will have it if the publisher sends it to them. Normally that means they will ship it, but not in all cases. Listen, I run a store and many times we only find out from a publisher that the book is out of print when we make an order for the book and they don't include it in the received order but list it as out of print on the invoice. That is how publishers work.
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PSE8 for Mac - The Missing Manual?

Barbara B. & others,
When is the release date for The Missing Manual for PSE8 for Mac? Will the format be similar to that for PSE6 for Mac?
Thank you.

Well, it would be better to pm me on this,since I'm not really supposed to talk about that here, but it's been printed and is on the way to the various distributors. Yes, format is pretty much the same as the PSE 6 book.
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I can manually type in single brackets, like this:
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Got the PSE 9 Missing Manual in Black and White?

Hey all, I don't normally talk about my books here, but if you recently ordered the Elements 9 Missing Manual from amazon and got it in black and white, please contact them.
They screwed up and somehow put it into their print on demand program instead of shipping the copies from O'Reilly. If you got one of these, get in touch with them and they'll send you a real copy as a replacement. The book should be in color.

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