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O'Reilly's Tools of Change blog covered ebooks, publishing technology, EPUB, and DRM-free book sales.
What HN saysHN links it for O'Reilly's move to DRM-free ebooks, which one commenter says was followed by a 104% rise in 2009 sales.
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- 1O'Reilly To Release DRM-free Ebooks In July2 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 2O'Reilly Books DRM-free for kindle1 people · 18 points · first shared 2009 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Liability vs. leverage1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 4Are we over-thinking EPUB?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 5Piracy, pricing, and ebook hoarding1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6The publishing industry has a problem, and ePub is not the solution (2013)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Visualizing book production1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Q&A With Co-Creator of Classics iPhone eReader1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 9What publishers can and should learn from The Elements1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Why the Apple/Publisher News isn't Really News1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11A Publisher�s Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Content is a Service Business - Tools of Change for Publishing1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 13Lightning strikes twice: The first digital pivot1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Amazon’s Kindle Whispercast service1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15Information wants to be…shared1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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clumsysmurf · 2017-07-02
Tim O'Reilly once said "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy". I discovered and purchased almost every Rosenfeld Media book from OReilly.
After O'Reilly moved to DRM-free books, their 2009 sales went up by 104% http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up-104-perce…
In other interviews, he seemed confident that DRM wasn't worth it
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0411/focus-tim-oreilly-media-e-book…
Perhaps some part of the equation has changed since then. I'm looking forward a deeper analysis of the business reasons for this.
I'm also interested to hear what more authors think - I wonder how many agree with Martin Kleppmann (Designing Data Intensive Applications) https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/880336943980085248
This independence day weekend there were a lot of sales, so I purchased:
* "Programming Clojure, Third Edition" from pragprog (30% off sale)
* The entire collection of "Enthusiast's Guide to ..." from rockynook (each for $10)
* "The Quick Python Book 3e", "Serverless Architectures on AWS", "Event Streams in Action", "Get Programming with Haskell" from Manning (50% off)
These sales are the only way I can afford the volume I read. Some of that money would have gone to OReilly authors, but they deleted my full cart with $100 worth of stuff before I could purchase!
EDIT: OReilly catalog seemed large & redundant with publishers (packt) offering the same materials on…
stdbrouw · 2014-06-18
Bangor Daily News does all of their editing in Google Docs. They then feed things into WordPress and InDesign, but I imagine you could feed it into pretty much anywhere.
http://dev.bangordailynews.com/2011/06/16/marrying-google-docs-and-wor…
http://toc.oreilly.com/2011/06/google-docs-wordpress-indesign-workflow…
mechanical_fish · 2008-07-11
It sounds expensive until you try to estimate the cost of my book collection. Double cripe.
The number of O'Reilly books that can be bought for $359 is depressingly small. If and when O'Reilly fully supports Kindle (and vice versa) Kindles will really start flying off the shelves:
http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/06/select-oreilly-books-soon-on-kindle-and…
UPDATE: Of course, some of the book pricing is going to need a reality adjustment. $10 more than a used paper copy is too much. And the catalog could use some proofreading too: did you know that Don Roberts wrote "Refactoring"?
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/B0…