# Julia in action book not published?

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**Created:** [May 17, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-in-action-book-not-published/39643 "2020-05-17T16:21:19Z")\
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> **[Julia in Action](https://www.manning.com/books/julia-in-action-cx1-cx)**
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> Julia in Action teaches you how to use the Julia language to tackle technical programming tasks as well as data processing, analysis, and visualization challenges. You'll begin by setting up your development environment and then you'll dive into the...

Does anyone know what happened to this book? Why was it not published?

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**Author:** ![ImreSamu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/imresamu/32/20677_2.png) [@ImreSamu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ImreSamu)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-in-action-book-not-published/39643/2 "2020-05-17T17:08:14Z")

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> [@xiaodai](#):
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> Why was it not published?

2017 - information:  
_" In the latter case, you might also know that **Manning has decided no longer to pursue the publishing of Julia in Action**. This was their decision following their assessment of the Julia market, the language, the community and the books on the market about Julia.  
I believe this was an incorrect decision, as incorrect as it was when it was first brought up at the end of last year. Back then, I fought for the book, and I managed to save it, or at least give it a stay of execution. We agreed that Julia in Action would be targeted to be published at Julia v0.8, and delivered at this slower pace. But when a few weeks ago, the publisher has informed me that they are once again thinking of cancelling the book, I could no longer save it. … "_

read more: **“The #juliabook is dead, long live the #juliabook!”**

- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170508080818/https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/juliabook-future/](https://web.archive.org/web/20170508080818/https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/juliabook-future/)

The current `learn-julia-the-hard-way` is available here:

- [https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/learn-julia-the-hard-way/tree/master/\_chapters](https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/learn-julia-the-hard-way/tree/master/_chapters)