O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store

Post by chris_wot » Sat, Jul 01, 2017, 1:26 AM UTC

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I won't buy another Pragmatic Press book after buying the Practical Vim second edition Kindle book only to find that the cursor positions are missing throughout the entire book. I posted on their forums about it only to be told that they had submitted the update and it was out of their hands. It's now been a year and a half and the update still hasn't appeared, and as I waited for the non-existent update to appear, I…

I'm very sorry to hear that. But unfortunately, support was correct. We can't control when -- or IF -- Amazon ever ships an update that we provide. If you buy from us directly, we ship out updates to books regularly. In this case, if you email me directly, I'll email you the latest version of that book by hand. Also, for anyone who wants to own individual ebooks, please help yourself to this coupon: iLoveEbooks, good…

Post by Frogolocalypse » Sat, Jul 01, 2017, 4:33 AM UTC

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The DMCA is an american law. Last time I looked, I don't live in america.

Per the wise words of a certain German musical group: we're all living in America.

Post by bad_user » Sat, Jul 01, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

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The subscription model makes sense for the vendors--I get that it costs money to put out new versions and support things. For me, it depends on the "stuff" and its longevity. E.G. for JetBrains, I'd rather pay ~$600 once and for all, since I doubt I'll move off of it any time soon. Instead, to get updates, I'll now pay $299 per year in perpetuity (after yr 2). So if I use it 10 more years, I plunk out almost $3000. E…

Out of curiosity, do you use many pieces of software regularly that you last updated in 2007? Would you use IntelliJ 2007 for work today? I don't know: $3k for ten years of updates to a key tool I use for work -- that seems low. Like, well below my budget for coffee. $2k/yr total does seem high. That's higher than my costs for my various work-related subscriptions. But if that $2k provides tools you convert into 50x…

Post by sjcole » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 6:41 AM UTC

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Is there any alternative to Safari Books Online which has both beginner and advanced content, video and books ? (If yes, I want to move away from Safari on grounds of principle)

Informit.com is a Pearson owned site and we sell the following tech imprints for all levels: Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Sams, Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, Pearston IT Certification, Que, Big Nerd Ranch, Peachpit, Adobe Press, and New Riders. We have regular holiday sales (including a 4th of July sale starting tomorrow), update our eBooks, and offer the different DRM-Free formats including PDF, MOBI and EPUB.

Post by SirWhiteRabbit » Wed, Jul 05, 2017, 8:56 AM UTC

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This sounds somewhat ominous ... will Manning keep the option of DRM-free individual book purchases going into the future?

Not at all :) I was responding to the criticism of O'Reilly reducing to just two choices - Safari or Amazon. We're committed to DRM free options wherever possible. We're coming up with some new stuff, but DRM free pdfs and epubs are pretty much our core business.