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Just examining their meaning of free.

They are free to purchase if you give them your name and email. So free as in 'free beer'

They are however covered by copyright. If they are really free presumably I could put them all on one site and let you download the whole 243 in one zip?

Having looked at a couple it has lead me to also consider their meaning of book. There may be books on here but there are mostly pamphlets and papers.

So nice to see a pro-RMS-vibe comment. So rare nowadays, sadly.

is there anyway now to buy an oreilly ebook?

they stopped selling ebooks via their own website, you can access the books online if you have a safari subscription, and you can buy kindle versions on amazon

but i cant find anyway to buy simple pdf or epub ebooks from oreilly

very weird business decision in my opinion

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6k3ixn/oreilly...

FWIW, if you haunt the Humble Book Bundle, you will end up acquiring a significant percentage of O'Reilly's library over time. O'Reilly itself does bundles there fairly often, and O'Reilly imprints like Make: and No Starch have put all but a few books that they've published in the last several years up in humble bundles.

One of the last bastions of good DRM-free eBooks is Pearson/InformIT, which includes a lot of big ones like Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, Addison-Wesley, Que, Sams, etc.

No Starch Press is not an O'Reilly imprint. We have no affiliation with O'Reilly. We do sell our ebooks through Safari though.

Somehow I had the impression, maybe you guys sold through O'Reilly when they sold ebooks straight up too?

Thanks for the clarification! (And you guys rock.)

O'Reilly sells their books DRM free on Google Play Store [1] in both PDF and ePUB formats.

But the quality of the produced ePUB and PDF books may vary. You might be able to get a idea by checking the content in the provided "Free Sample".

[1] https://play.google.com/store/books

I have an account on their site, but that apparently doesn't let me get these books without having to manually enter my info... unless I've missed something?

Thanks for sharing. This one looks interesting: "Designing for Respect - UX Ethics for the Digital Age"

I suppose this one is missing on LinkedIn

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