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Books Giveaway: Winners

By Smashing Editorial, October 17th, 2008 in Events | 55 Comments | Forum

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 .

Published in Events, October 17th, 2008
Tags: books, Events, giveaway, smashing

1.

Space (October 17th, 2008, 1:45 am)

Nice
2.

Johannes Aagaard (October 17th, 2008, 1:46 am)

Grats to the winners!
3.

Simon M (October 17th, 2008, 1:47 am)

Maybe next time ! congrats to winners and thanks to SM for such giveaways !
4.

Adam Kirkwood (October 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!
5.

kpjothivelu (October 17th, 2008, 1:50 am)

congrats!!! to all winners!!!!!!!
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Shuuun (October 17th, 2008, 1:50 am)

I was Nr 1 and havnt won -.-

Nice one to the winners ;)
7.

Pelardo (October 17th, 2008, 1:54 am)

bleh I wanna win to…

hopefully next time…
8.

andras (October 17th, 2008, 1:58 am)

Congrats! Thank you Smashing for these giveaways!
9.

hd-J (October 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, …
10.

Anthony B. (October 17th, 2008, 2:04 am)

Congrats! And thank you SM for all the contents you post in your espectacular magazine.
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GalaxySpectrum (October 17th, 2008, 2:06 am)

Must compliment you on your superb choices of books. We are familiar with some of them
12.

NaldzGraphics (October 17th, 2008, 2:09 am)

congrats to the winners!!
13.

Tomita Militaru (October 17th, 2008, 2:14 am)

for a second there I thought I won :P better luck next time :)
14.

bobo (October 17th, 2008, 2:16 am)

good, i hope next time
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Joram Oudenaarde (October 17th, 2008, 2:17 am)

Gratz to all! :)
16.

budi (October 17th, 2008, 2:31 am)

wo… so lucky…

congrats to winner :>
17.

mnvamsi (October 17th, 2008, 2:38 am)

Photoshop CS3 Bible that’s truly a great book to hang on with.
18.

Laurence (October 17th, 2008, 3:28 am)

Although I didn’t win it was a smashing competition and well done to those who did win!
19.

Tom (October 17th, 2008, 3:40 am)

Congrats to all winners!
20.

Pixelette (October 17th, 2008, 3:41 am)

congrats! :)
21.

Sam (October 17th, 2008, 3:54 am)

Congratulations!!!
22.

Christopher Ross (thisismyurl.com) (October 17th, 2008, 3:55 am)

Congrats to the winners.
23.

Bleyder (October 17th, 2008, 4:25 am)

snif!
24.

Brian (October 17th, 2008, 4:27 am)

Thanks Smashing Magazine!
25.

Jason A. (October 17th, 2008, 4:48 am)

Congratulations, winners!
26.

blenderslender (October 17th, 2008, 4:50 am)

congrats to all winner :)
27.

Janckos (October 17th, 2008, 5:10 am)

Congrats.
28.

Yuukan (October 17th, 2008, 5:41 am)

Yeah congrats ! May be the next time ;)
29.

Pedro (October 17th, 2008, 5:59 am)

Gratz !!!!!
30.

coltrane (October 17th, 2008, 6:24 am)

It’s a fix I tell ya!
31.

Militaru (October 17th, 2008, 7:03 am)

Thanks for the book, i promise i’ll use it wisely.
32.

Torbjørn Vik Lunde (October 17th, 2008, 7:10 am)

Congratulations you lucky bastards. :)
33.

Brian (October 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!
34.

vashyoung (October 17th, 2008, 7:28 am)

omg next time! ill win about 10 yrs from now
35.

JoAnn (October 17th, 2008, 7:36 am)

Grats to the winners!
36.

Tomek (October 17th, 2008, 7:54 am)

Cool, next time i’ll win
37.

mikey (October 17th, 2008, 8:49 am)

was this a random selection or based on the post of the winner?
38.

Penuel (October 17th, 2008, 9:51 am)

wow :(
39.

Valery Mishkorez (October 17th, 2008, 9:56 am)

Thanks
40.

KS (October 17th, 2008, 6:04 pm)

Keep up the great work SM!
41.

dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA) (October 17th, 2008, 7:00 pm)

Congrats to those who win those book!

Link [www.iHaCK.ASIA]
42.

jing (October 17th, 2008, 7:09 pm)

hope im lucky on next time lol
43.

Nabeel (October 17th, 2008, 9:21 pm)

You’re so great!
Hopefully I can get a book from you next time.

I’m waiting for it :)
44.

b00m (October 17th, 2008, 9:24 pm)

Congrats to the winners! yahoo0!
45.

Ehsan (October 17th, 2008, 9:56 pm)

Thanks anyway, SM team
46.

rajaraman (October 17th, 2008, 10:31 pm)

wooooow
47.

Don’t Win (October 17th, 2008, 11:11 pm)

Hobo Magazine…
48.

never be dissapointed (October 18th, 2008, 7:35 am)

here is another free book giveaway on Link [www.diggitlive.com] in case you missed the shot on smashing magazine
49.

Mariano (October 18th, 2008, 12:48 pm)

T.T congratz to all winners ‘ T.T ‘
50.

eyd ryan (October 19th, 2008, 11:02 am)

10 books for 3700 people. those who won should play the lottery
51.

fernando (October 19th, 2008, 6:12 pm)

Nice!
Thanks Smashing Magazine
52.

ferdranda (October 19th, 2008, 6:25 pm)

nice for the winners xD ^_^ grats!
53.

Victor J. Buforn (October 20th, 2008, 12:12 am)

Congratulations for the winners!
54.

jon (October 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’
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Atanu (October 20th, 2008, 4:58 am)

Congrats to the winners.