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Books Giveaway: Winners
Last week we announced a books giveaway (the page take minutes to load) — we were giving away 10 professional web design-related books that cover the topics CSS, usability, user interface design, innovation, web navigation, web form design and JavaScript programming.
We genuinely appreciate our community and respect our readers for reading us, and now we wanted to give something back. Over 3,500 readers participated in the giveaway. And the winners are now announced in this post.
Books and Winners
| # | Cover | Title by Author | Description |
| 1 |  | Ajax: The Definitive Guide by Anthony Holdener | Militaru (#491) |
| 2 |  | Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig | Adam K. (#1562) |
| 3 |  | Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton | Brian (#304) |
| 4 |  | Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition by Kimberley Elam | Marco (#2590) |
| 5 |  | Photoshop CS3 Bible by Laurie Ulrich Fuller, Robert C. Fuller | Lindsey Lake (#1040) |
| 6 |  | Letterhead and Logo Design: v. 9 by Mine | Huy (#3251) |
| 7 |  | Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach | Owen (#881) |
| 8 |  | The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks by Rachel Andrew | hd-J (#648) |
| 9 |  | Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature by Matt Kloskowski | Toju (#2353) |
| 10 |  | Bierut: 79 Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut | wendy wallach (#1729) |
Congratulations to the winners! All winners have already been contacted.
Be prepared, we are going to smash you big next time, more giveaways are coming. Therefore maybe it’s a good time to subscribe to our RSS-feed 
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The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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- 2October 17th, 2008 1:46 am
Grats to the winners!
- 3October 17th, 2008 1:47 am
Maybe next time ! congrats to winners and thanks to SM for such giveaways !
- 4October 17th, 2008 1:50 am
Thank you so much Smashing Magazine! I just completed a Javascript Programming course last quarter, so I look forward to reading Pro Javascript Techniques from John Resig to take my knowledge to the next level.
Thanks again Smashing Mag!
- 5October 17th, 2008 1:50 am
congrats!!! to all winners!!!!!!!
- 6October 17th, 2008 1:50 am
I was Nr 1 and havnt won -.-
Nice one to the winners ;)
- 7October 17th, 2008 1:54 am
bleh I wanna win to…
hopefully next time…
- 8October 17th, 2008 1:58 am
Congrats! Thank you Smashing for these giveaways!
- 9October 17th, 2008 2:00 am
Well that’s great, I usually never win anything!
Thank you so much Smashing Magazine!!! And thanks for all your great articles, the free Premium themes you give away, the icons, books, … - 10October 17th, 2008 2:04 am
Congrats! And thank you SM for all the contents you post in your espectacular magazine.
- 11October 17th, 2008 2:06 am
Must compliment you on your superb choices of books. We are familiar with some of them
- 12October 17th, 2008 2:09 am
congrats to the winners!!
- 13October 17th, 2008 2:14 am
for a second there I thought I won :P better luck next time :)
- 14October 17th, 2008 2:16 am
good, i hope next time
- 15October 17th, 2008 2:17 am
Gratz to all! :)
- 16October 17th, 2008 2:31 am
wo… so lucky…
congrats to winner :>
- 17October 17th, 2008 2:38 am
Photoshop CS3 Bible that’s truly a great book to hang on with.
- 18October 17th, 2008 3:28 am
Although I didn’t win it was a smashing competition and well done to those who did win!
- 19October 17th, 2008 3:40 am
Congrats to all winners!
- 20October 17th, 2008 3:41 am
congrats! :)
- 21October 17th, 2008 3:54 am
Congratulations!!!
- 22October 17th, 2008 3:55 am
Congrats to the winners.
- 23October 17th, 2008 4:25 am
snif!
- 24October 17th, 2008 4:27 am
Thanks Smashing Magazine!
- 25October 17th, 2008 4:48 am
Congratulations, winners!
- 26October 17th, 2008 4:50 am
congrats to all winner :)
- 27October 17th, 2008 5:10 am
Congrats.
- 28October 17th, 2008 5:41 am
Yeah congrats ! May be the next time ;)
- 29October 17th, 2008 5:59 am
Gratz !!!!!
- 30October 17th, 2008 6:24 am
It’s a fix I tell ya!
- 31October 17th, 2008 7:03 am
Thanks for the book, i promise i’ll use it wisely.
- 32October 17th, 2008 7:10 am
Congratulations you lucky bastards. :)
- 33October 17th, 2008 7:21 am
Damn! you guys had me fooled for a second… why are there so many brians in the world >_< i wanted #3 and i’d be dammed if i didnt put brian for my name!
congrats other #3 brian!
- 34October 17th, 2008 7:28 am
omg next time! ill win about 10 yrs from now
- 35October 17th, 2008 7:36 am
Grats to the winners!
- 36October 17th, 2008 7:54 am
Cool, next time i’ll win
- 37October 17th, 2008 8:49 am
was this a random selection or based on the post of the winner?
- 38October 17th, 2008 9:51 am
wow :(
- 39October 17th, 2008 9:56 am
Thanks
- 40October 17th, 2008 6:04 pm
Keep up the great work SM!
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- 42October 17th, 2008 7:09 pm
hope im lucky on next time lol
- 43October 17th, 2008 9:21 pm
You’re so great!
Hopefully I can get a book from you next time.I’m waiting for it :)
- 44October 17th, 2008 9:24 pm
Congrats to the winners! yahoo0!
- 45October 17th, 2008 9:56 pm
Thanks anyway, SM team
- 46October 17th, 2008 10:31 pm
wooooow
- 47October 17th, 2008 11:11 pm
Hobo Magazine…
- 48October 18th, 2008 7:35 am
here is another free book giveaway on http://www.diggitlive.com in case you missed the shot on smashing magazine
- 49October 18th, 2008 12:48 pm
T.T congratz to all winners ‘ T.T ‘
- 50October 19th, 2008 11:02 am
10 books for 3700 people. those who won should play the lottery
- 51October 19th, 2008 6:12 pm
Nice!
Thanks Smashing Magazine - 52October 19th, 2008 6:25 pm
nice for the winners xD ^_^ grats!
- 53October 20th, 2008 12:12 am
Congratulations for the winners!
- 54October 20th, 2008 1:30 am
whoever wrote ‘Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience’ needs to buy ‘Designing Book Covers: Optimizing the cover to relate to the cotent instead of using a poor drawing of a cat’
- 55October 20th, 2008 4:58 am
Congrats to the winners.
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