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O'Reilly Publishing is closing its online store
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What's going on? I will stop using O'Reilly's affiliate stores for new books and e-books and boycott them. If somebody want to tell O'Reilly what to think of this decision they can let them know at support@oreilly.com Last edited by joblack; 06-30-2017 at 08:07 AM. |
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I am confused. If they are going to stop selling books, you can't buy from them anyway. So how is your boycott going to work?
When I first saw your post, I thought of O'Reilly auto parts. |
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They sell books and e-books through other retailers (e.g. Amazon). The problem is that at least the e-book format is not multi format and often includes DRM (e.g. Amazon Kindle format).
One attractive treat from shop.oreilly.com was that you could buy the e-book, get all three formats (epub, mobi and pdf) and had no DRM. Now they are forcing you to use a subscription model like Safari where you have to be online or force you to use DRM enabled e-book stores like Amazon. ![]() So if the customers just stop buying O'Reilly books/e-books altogether I would define that as a 'boycotting'. ![]() Last edited by joblack; 06-28-2017 at 07:35 PM. |
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I misread the thread title as "closing up shop", meaning going out of business entirely. I'm glad that they will still be around even if they will no longer be selling directly.
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So I wonder if this is a case of them running their own shop hasn't been cost effective, as has proven to be the case for some other publishers, or if it's more of a case of them wanting to push more people towards Safari. Or maybe there's some other reason.
Looks like Amazon (where AFAIK their titles are DRM-free, or were anyway), iBooks and Google Play, but not Kobo, are the choices for buying now. |
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I don't know about currently, but in the past I've occasionally come across DRMed O'Reilly titles on Amazon, and on reporting them to O'Reilly they had the status fixed within a couple of days. Packt was similarly helpful when I reached out to them regarding the same issue with a few of their titles. Kindle format wouldn't be my first choice for those kinds of books, but I'm glad to see those who want it able to buy DRM-free on Amazon.
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Would you like me to fix the error in the thread title, BTW? |
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At least O'Reilly is still allowing access to those ebooks bought previously from them. |
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I wouldn't have a problem with that if there would be another online shop which would support DRM free multiformat O'Reilly e-books but we will see what will happen. Sure, please modify the thread title. |
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If O'Reilly found that they were losing money by hosting the store, are you really going to *boycott* them because of it? Or do you think that they are closing the store just because they're tired of it, and want to annoy people like you who don't like Amazon? (You do realize that they've always sold on Amazon, right?) Shari |
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An advantage of Amazon over Google books may perhaps be the issue of updates, if these are, as suggested, books that get updated. Amazon make it easy to get updated versions of purchased books. I don't know how good Google Books are in that regard?
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The biggest disappointment for me is the loss of the member discounts. They had several standard discounts for those with an oreilly.com account (buy 1 get 1, discount for upgrading to the next edition of books you own, discounts if you buy both the print and ebook). I bought a lot of ebooks direct from them because of those discounts. Having access to multiple formats was nice as well, but as was mentioned already, conversion to other formats is easy.
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Is the Google Play version also in three formats and without DRM? Quote:
I have primarily bought e-books especially at oreilly.com because they had the DRM free multi format. If you just want paperback books and/or DRM-invested e-books other stores will be fine for you. ![]() |
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