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Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

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Post by ghc »

It's silly to keep posting every O'Reilly eBook sale to HN. This is basically just free advertising for them. The 50% discount is nothing special: If you sign up for a membership you get a permanent buy-one-get-one-free discount that O'Reilly interprets as a 50% discount on each book. So just sign up for a membership, wait until you have two books you want to buy, and get a 50% discount without having to wait for a sale.

Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

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Post by prawks »

I wish they'd have some sales on physical books. Maybe it's just my traditional thinking, but I have a hard time paying $20+ for a pdf. I understand the publisher needs money, the author has to eat, and the printing costs aren't really a whole ton that you can reduce the price with, but it still just doesn't sit right with me.

I feel like and old curmudgeon.

Side edit: In what kind of strange world does the 2nd edition of an eBook still fetch $32 while the 3rd edition is $36?

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Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

#5

Post by ehamberg »

prawks wrote: post #4

I wish they'd have some sales on physical books. Maybe it's just my traditional thinking, but I have a hard time paying $20+ for a pdf. I understand the publisher needs money, the author has to eat, and the printing costs aren't really a whole ton that you can reduce the price with, but it still just doesn't sit right with me. I feel like and old curmudgeon. Side edit: In what kind of strange world does the 2nd editi…

Just for the record: You don't just get a PDF. You get a real e-book too.

Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

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Post by diab0lic »

ghc wrote: post #3

It's silly to keep posting every O'Reilly eBook sale to HN. This is basically just free advertising for them. The 50% discount is nothing special: If you sign up for a membership you get a permanent buy-one-get-one-free discount that O'Reilly interprets as a 50% discount on each book. So just sign up for a membership, wait until you have two books you want to buy, and get a 50% discount without having to wait for a s…

If I'm not mistaken, and I may well be, you can actually use that code on a single book and it'll work just fine as a 50% off as well. So basically you can get 50% off at any given time, the sales are completely a marketing technique.

Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

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Post by Refefer »

prawks wrote: post #4

I wish they'd have some sales on physical books. Maybe it's just my traditional thinking, but I have a hard time paying $20+ for a pdf. I understand the publisher needs money, the author has to eat, and the printing costs aren't really a whole ton that you can reduce the price with, but it still just doesn't sit right with me. I feel like and old curmudgeon. Side edit: In what kind of strange world does the 2nd editi…

I'm with you: I like good old dead tree books for so many reasons such as writing in the margins. They should follow Manning books philosophy and also discount physical books as well, a feature which has resulted in my acquiring 10+ books by them.

Re: Save 50% on All O'Reilly Ebooks and Videos

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Post by kops »

haraball wrote: post #2

O'Reilly is having sale and discounts so often that I avoid buying books at the full price while waiting for a coupon. This often ends with me forgetting about the book and not buying it at all.

Same here. But on rare occasions when I do avail the buy-one-get-one-free offer, the second book invariably goes unread.

Also does anyone know why these 50% discount offers are limited to ebooks only?

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