Nmap Network Scanning

Purchase options

This page lists online and physical bookstores for purchasing Nmap Network Scanning. If the prices change, you find another good option, or you encounter bad service from any of these providers, please let me know.

Several people asked whether Nmap Network Scanning
is still up to date, particularly after the release of Nmap 5.00. The good news is that virtually all of the
content remains accurate. But we have added some new features and
NSE scripts which aren’t yet documented in NNS.

For a comprehensive and completely current view of Nmap, I
recommend reading Nmap Network Scanning first, then read all the
changelog entries we’ve produced since the book was finished. The
book is completely up-to-date with Nmap 4.76. So after (or before)
you’re done reading Nmap Network Scanning, visit
the Nmap changelog and search
in the file for “Nmap 4.76”. Read each item upward from there
(scrolling backward) until you get to the top.

Translations

We would love to make the Nmap book more accessible by working with foreign publishers who will translate and distribute it in their markets. If you are such a publisher or know a good one to suggest, please let me know. Here are the current or in-progress translations:

Current status

August 26: Many Barnes & Noble stores now stock NNS, as described in the purchasing section.

August 26: Editora Ciência Moderna released the Brazilian Portuguese translation. See translations.

July 31: Held a book signing at Defcon. All copies sold out in 3 hours.

July 17: Added Updates section.

July 16: Nmap 5.00 released!

June 11: The German translation from Open Source Press is now available. They also contributed back a German translation of the Nmap Reference Guide.

January 30: Today the Amazon price is back to $32.97 after several days at $37.96. I hope they keep it at this price!

January 23: Amazon has raised their prices, so I’ve added more purchase options, though the cheapest is still only about $4.50 less than Amazon when domestic shipping is taken into account.

January 21: NNS receives a glowing review from About.Com.

January 19: Translation contracts have been signed for Korean and Brazilian Portuguese editions of Nmap Network Scanning! See the new Translations section for details.

January 5: Acorn Publishing Co. will be publishing the official Korean translation of Nmap Network Scanning! Release is expected in August.

January 4: NNS is finally in stock at Amazon U.K. and Amazon Germany. Amazon Canada currently still has a 1-3 week backlog.

December 31, 2008: NNS makes Richard Bejtlich’s TaoSecurity Top Books of 2008 list.

December 29, 2008: A new Information Week review is one of the best so far!

December 19, 2008: The book is back in stock on Amazon after a 10 day dry spell!

December 10, 2008: Amazon has now indexed this book as part of
their “Search Inside” program. While Amazon intends this
as a marketing tool for prospective buyers, it can be even more useful
for folks who already own the book. While we’re proud of our index,
Search Inside can help find more obscure terms or combinations of them. You can try this out by visiting
the Amazon
NNS page, scrolling down to the Search Inside box, and typing in a
term such as Trinity or Microsoft.

December 9, 2008: Sales were so high that Amazon ran out of stock in the US, UK, and Germany. They say it may take a week or more to ship. Amazon still offers a great price, but for those who can’t wait, I’ve added a purchasing options section. It includes vendor such as A1Books and Barnes & Noble with NNS in stock now.

December 9, 2008: Nmap Network Scanning sales surge further to become #1 on Amazon’s computer book best seller list! Since we can’t keep that rank forever, I took a screenshot (larger version).

December 8, 2008:
An excellent
Slashdot review causes NNS to rocket into Amazon’s top 10 computer books.

December 6, 2008: Amazon has fixed the price so it is now $33.71 rather than $49.95. NNS is in stock and shipping!

December 2, 2008: The book has an initial page on Amazon. You can pre-order it now, but Amazon is showing a pre-order price of $49.95. I expect the price to be about $33 when Amazon starts shipping it within a week or two. Amazon will probably refund the difference per their “Pre-order price guarantee”, but it might be safer to wait. Book seller BOOKSPLUSMORESTUFF claims to have the book “in stock” on Amazon for $53.94 including shipping. That may or may not be true.

November 14, 2008: The book is finished and submitted to the
printer! The official release date is January 1, 2009, though our
goal is to make it available on Amazon and other retailers by
mid-December. To be notified upon publication, join the
low-traffic nmap-hackers
announcement mailing list.

September 15, 2008: The Black Hat/Defcon pre-release was a huge
success! All of the Defcon copies were snapped up as soon as the
vendor room opened, and the Black Hat copies also sold out in the
first morning of the conference. Thanks to Bill Pollock of No Starch
Press and Dave Hemsath of BreakPoint Books for handling sales. My
conference presentation video and audio have
been posted
online just in time for
the Nmap
4.75 release which includes the new features discussed in that
presentation.

July 25, 2008: Defcon Pre-Release announced! We have decided to
launch the book with a limited pre-release version at Defcon 16.

July 1, 2008: After years of work, Nmap Network Scanning is nearing completion. You can browse the current table of contents to see what is coming. We recently conducted a test-printing of some prepublication copies:

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