Books Giveaway: Winners
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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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Space
October 17th, 2008 1:45 amNice
Johannes Aagaard
October 17th, 2008 1:46 amGrats to the winners!
Simon M
October 17th, 2008 1:47 amMaybe next time ! congrats to winners and thanks to SM for such giveaways !
Adam Kirkwood
October 17th, 2008 1:50 amThank 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!
kpjothivelu
October 17th, 2008 1:50 amcongrats!!! to all winners!!!!!!!
Shuuun
October 17th, 2008 1:50 amI was Nr 1 and havnt won -.-
Nice one to the winners ;)
Pelardo
October 17th, 2008 1:54 ambleh I wanna win to…
hopefully next time…
andras
October 17th, 2008 1:58 amCongrats! Thank you Smashing for these giveaways!
hd-J
October 17th, 2008 2:00 amWell 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, …
Anthony B.
October 17th, 2008 2:04 amCongrats! And thank you SM for all the contents you post in your espectacular magazine.
GalaxySpectrum
October 17th, 2008 2:06 amMust compliment you on your superb choices of books. We are familiar with some of them
NaldzGraphics
October 17th, 2008 2:09 amcongrats to the winners!!
Tomita Militaru
October 17th, 2008 2:14 amfor a second there I thought I won :P better luck next time :)
bobo
October 17th, 2008 2:16 amgood, i hope next time
Joram Oudenaarde
October 17th, 2008 2:17 amGratz to all! :)
budi
October 17th, 2008 2:31 amwo… so lucky…
congrats to winner :>
mnvamsi
October 17th, 2008 2:38 amPhotoshop CS3 Bible that’s truly a great book to hang on with.
Laurence
October 17th, 2008 3:28 amAlthough I didn’t win it was a smashing competition and well done to those who did win!
Tom
October 17th, 2008 3:40 amCongrats to all winners!
Pixelette
October 17th, 2008 3:41 amcongrats! :)
Sam
October 17th, 2008 3:54 amCongratulations!!!
Christopher Ross (thisismyurl.com)
October 17th, 2008 3:55 amCongrats to the winners.
Bleyder
October 17th, 2008 4:25 amsnif!
Brian
October 17th, 2008 4:27 amThanks Smashing Magazine!
Jason A.
October 17th, 2008 4:48 amCongratulations, winners!
blenderslender
October 17th, 2008 4:50 amcongrats to all winner :)
Janckos
October 17th, 2008 5:10 amCongrats.
Yuukan
October 17th, 2008 5:41 amYeah congrats ! May be the next time ;)
Pedro
October 17th, 2008 5:59 amGratz !!!!!
coltrane
October 17th, 2008 6:24 amIt’s a fix I tell ya!
Militaru
October 17th, 2008 7:03 amThanks for the book, i promise i’ll use it wisely.
Torbjørn Vik Lunde
October 17th, 2008 7:10 amCongratulations you lucky bastards. :)
Brian
October 17th, 2008 7:21 amDamn! 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!
vashyoung
October 17th, 2008 7:28 amomg next time! ill win about 10 yrs from now
JoAnn
October 17th, 2008 7:36 amGrats to the winners!
Tomek
October 17th, 2008 7:54 amCool, next time i’ll win
mikey
October 17th, 2008 8:49 amwas this a random selection or based on the post of the winner?
Penuel
October 17th, 2008 9:51 amwow :(
Valery Mishkorez
October 17th, 2008 9:56 amThanks
KS
October 17th, 2008 6:04 pmKeep up the great work SM!
dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA)
October 17th, 2008 7:00 pmCongrats to those who win those book!
http://www.iHaCK.ASIA
jing
October 17th, 2008 7:09 pmhope im lucky on next time lol
Nabeel
October 17th, 2008 9:21 pmYou’re so great!
Hopefully I can get a book from you next time.
I’m waiting for it :)
b00m
October 17th, 2008 9:24 pmCongrats to the winners! yahoo0!
Ehsan
October 17th, 2008 9:56 pmThanks anyway, SM team
rajaraman
October 17th, 2008 10:31 pmwooooow
Don't Win
October 17th, 2008 11:11 pmHobo Magazine…
never be dissapointed
October 18th, 2008 7:35 amhere is another free book giveaway on http://www.diggitlive.com in case you missed the shot on smashing magazine
Mariano
October 18th, 2008 12:48 pmT.T congratz to all winners ‘ T.T ‘
eyd ryan
October 19th, 2008 11:02 am10 books for 3700 people. those who won should play the lottery
fernando
October 19th, 2008 6:12 pmNice!
Thanks Smashing Magazine
ferdranda
October 19th, 2008 6:25 pmnice for the winners xD ^_^ grats!
Victor J. Buforn
October 20th, 2008 12:12 amCongratulations for the winners!
jon
October 20th, 2008 1:30 amwhoever 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’
Atanu
October 20th, 2008 4:58 amCongrats to the winners.