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Old 06-28-2017, 06:18 PM   #1
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O'Reilly Books web store closes

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This week, O’Reilly Media stopped retailing books directly on our ecommerce store.

We still sell them through Amazon or your favorite retailer.
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too

Bad news. I chose to buy from their web store because it was all-formats, DRM-free, and free from vendor lock-in.
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Old 06-28-2017, 07:00 PM   #2
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My heart is broken. They were a favorite resource.
 
Old 06-28-2017, 07:02 PM   #3
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O'Reilly took the mystery out of CSS and MySQL for me.
 
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My heart is broken. They were a favorite resource.
Ditto.
 
Old 06-29-2017, 03:48 PM   #5
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Stay tuned to WCRP where the hits just keep on coming. What a loss. Damn.
 
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Bummer, O’Reilly published exceptionally good technical books.

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Old 06-29-2017, 06:51 PM   #7
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there are two important things to note:
  • We are absolutely continuing to publish the top-quality books that are important to the communities we serve.
  • We still sell them through Amazon or your favorite retailer.

I just gave away 80% of my O'Reilly publications.
 
Old 06-29-2017, 07:42 PM   #8
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Their web store was my favorite retailer! Every purchase included unrestricted downloads of a DRM-free EPUB, a DRM-free PDF, and a DRM-free Mobi file.
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Old 06-30-2017, 06:37 AM   #9
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Alas, I'm pretty sure that their days are numbered as a company. Today, you can get information from the Internet for free. Retailers stock only a very small section of computer books. (Paper recyclers are very disappointed.)
 
Old 07-03-2017, 11:34 PM   #10
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I've never dealt with ebooks.com, but they're apparently carrying DRM-free O'Reilly books.

http://about.ebooks.com/drm-free-ore...le-ebooks-com/
 
Old 07-04-2017, 12:25 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by dugan View Post
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too

Bad news. I chose to buy from their web store because it was all-formats, DRM-free, and free from vendor lock-in.
strange because it was 1 good store

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I've never dealt with ebooks.com, but they're apparently carrying DRM-free O'Reilly books.

http://about.ebooks.com/drm-free-ore...le-ebooks-com/
Let's get prepared for what comes next concerning DRM obligation / user dependencies & proprietary format user locking.
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