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O'Reilly Media Has Stopped Retailing Books Directly On Its Ecommerce Store (oreilly.com)
An anonymous reader shares a press release: This week, O'Reilly Media stopped retailing books directly on our ecommerce store. You might say "what!?" Or you might say "what's the big deal?" Before I explain our business strategy here, 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.
1. We still sell them through Amazon or your favorite retailer.
2. So why the change? It's clear that we're in the midst of a fundamental shift in how people get and use their content.
Subscription services like Spotify and Netflix are the new norm, as people opt for paying for digital access rather than purchasing physical units one by one. We've already seen this in our own business -- the growth of membership on Safari far exceeds the individual units previously purchased on oreilly.com. That's one reason for the change.
1. We still sell them through Amazon or your favorite retailer.
2. So why the change? It's clear that we're in the midst of a fundamental shift in how people get and use their content.
Subscription services like Spotify and Netflix are the new norm, as people opt for paying for digital access rather than purchasing physical units one by one. We've already seen this in our own business -- the growth of membership on Safari far exceeds the individual units previously purchased on oreilly.com. That's one reason for the change.
Didnt I see this yesterday
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Could be worse with another dupe comment about forward vs. foreword.
still don't care today.
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>Subscription services like Spotify and Netflix are the new norm, as people opt for paying for digital access rather than purchasing physical units one by one.
I'm cancelling my Netflix Canada cause I've see all I wanted to see on it and why pay $11 per month for something I'll rarely use now.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
This is in the manual. There MUST be a certain number of Dips to maintain Slashdot's street cred.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Why say "what?!" or "what's the big deal?" when you can say "O'RLY?!"
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
... and selling one book at a time will take too long
They are saying you can't just buy one of our books. You have to buy all of them!
When other industries do this the FTC glares at them and sometimes even does something about it. Fortunately the world is so awash with tech how-to's much of them free tutorials on the web that the world will survive. Perhaps the real reason O'Reilly are doing this? Still a market for well written tech books but: Check out Packt.
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Web browser only Safari I know.
The original title implied the books themselves were being discontinued.