No Starch Press Teams Up with Humble Bundle to Present the Humble Brainiac Book Bundle
Pay What You Want for an Amazing Selection of Geeky Kids eBooks
San Francisco, CA (February 4, 2014) — No Starch Press has long been the go-to source for curious kids, offering the finest in geek entertainment and education. Its recent line of kids programming books has garnered widespread praise from educators, parents, and book reviewers alike. Today, No Starch teams up with Humble Bundle to offer the Humble Brainiac Book Bundle.
Humble Bundle's pay-what-you-want model allows customers to pay any price for the eBook bundle, valued at over 250 dollars.
No Starch Press founder Bill Pollock says, "We're committed to making technical subjects accessible and entertaining to people of all ages. With this promotion, we're showcasing our unique resources for kids and hope to inspire a future generation of programmers, engineers, and all-around geeks. This is pretty much a no brainer—for the price of an Uber, you can get a slew of No Starch eBooks and contribute to charities that matter."
Customers can pay any amount of money and receive:
Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids
Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things
The Manga Guide to Electricity
Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids
The LEGO Adventure Book, Volume 1: Cars, Castles, Dinosaurs & More!
Customers who pay more than the average user will also receive:
LEGO Space: Building the Future
The Manga Guide to Physics
Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
Incredible LEGO Technic: Cars, Trucks, Robots & More!
Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress
And customers who pay $15 or more will receive all of the above, plus:
Steampunk LEGO
JavaScript for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town!
As with all Humble Bundle promotions, customers choose how much of their money goes to the publisher, Humble Bundle, and charity. The two charities supported by this bundle are the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The Humble Brainiac Book Bundle runs for two weeks and ends February 18, 2015 at 2pm EST time.
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About No Starch Press
No Starch Press has been publishing the finest in geek entertainment since 1994, covering topics like LEGO, hacking, science, math, and programming for all ages. Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books tackle topics that people care about.
About Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle organizes pay-what-you-want plus charity promotions for awesome digital content and puts the power directly in the hands of the consumers, offering them fully-featured titles at prices they set themselves. Consumers pay what they want and decide how to allocate their money between content creators, charity, and a humble tip. Humble Bundle also offers the Humble Store, a digital storefront that features great games at great prices with a portion of sales going to select charities. Since the company's launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has helped empower its community to allocate more than $50 million toward charity to date. For more information, please visit https://www.humblebundle.com.
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