--- title: "Steal My Book" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/22/steal-my-book.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/22/steal-my-book.html" published: "2009-09-22T17:16:33" updated: "2009-09-22T17:16:33" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "last night I found out on twitter , that people are spreading the full PDF versions of my book . What made me angry was that the person who did this had the audacity to also retweet stuff I said, a few minutes after…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Steal My Book By Roy Osherove September 22, 2009 **Historical article** · Originally published September 22, 2009; technical details may be outdated. last night [I found out on twitter](http://twitter.com/royosherove), that people are spreading the full PDF versions of [my book](http://www.artofunittesting.com/). What made me angry was that the person who did this had the audacity to also retweet stuff I said, a few minutes after spreading a link to an illegal copy of my book. then I got a few responses, some supportive, some telling me that “that’s the way things are” and that it might actually be a good thing. So I decided to have an experiment. I’m going to give you some links to download an illegal, full PDF version of my book. A book that took me three years to finish. A book that I started with zero kids, and was released with me having two kids. A book that has changed during its writing, that I learned a lot from, and that I am making about 2$ off of every PRINT copy sold, and much less on PDF copies sold (in short – the money ain’t great). I want you to **steal** my book as PDF. and if you like it, I want you to be straight about it, and purchase either the [PDF version of it](http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=462_91), or buy [a print version on Manning](http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=462_91) or [Amazon’s site](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988274/iserializable-20). **Here goes:** [Buy the print or the PDF eBook on the Manning site](http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=462_91) [Buy the print book on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988274/iserializable-20)  (FYI – every print copy has a coupon for a full PDF copy inside) [Download the FULL Illegal PDF of the book from RapidShare](http://xrl.us/bfnipn) ([or just google](http://www.google.com/search?q=art+of+unit+tesitng+ebook) for an illegal version) **Answer** this poll so that I know if this was a smart idea or not \[You’re reading my .NET Blog. I’ve also started a team leadership blog over [at 5Whys.com](http://5whys.com/) – it’s all about leading software teams. You can also [attend varioius courses on TDD and team leadership](https://osherove.com/) that I provide\] --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/