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O'Reilly is selling any eBook for $9.99 today
- ukdm 16y agoMicrosoft Press titles excluded
- rbanffy 16y agoI'm fine with that.
- techsupporter 16y agoI'm not. Lots of companies use C#, Visual Studio, or just Windows in general, and the best books for those topics usually come from MS Press. It would have been nice to get the C# 2010 book through this deal.
- dpritchett 16y agohttp://www.appstorehq.com/microsoft-visualc-2010stepbystep-iphone-222947/app http://www.appstorehq.com/microsoft-visualc-2010stepbystep-i... Is this the one you wanted? You can get this for $6 and use some advice from upthread to convert it to ePub.
- cschep 16y agoCan anyone make any recommendations?
- mechanician 16y ago"Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran.
- fredoliveira 16y agoGreat recommendation. I personally enjoyed that book tremendously.
- toby 16y agoThanks! I appreciate the support!
- markmywords 16y agoThanks for writing such a great book. One of the treasures in my (ever growing) collection and I am even citing it in one of my papers I currently write :)
- wooster 16y agoThanks for the fantastic book. :-)
- kaykay 16y agoI just got a copy of this, meaning to read this for a long time.
- fredoliveira 16y agoHere's a few recent buys: - Javascript: The Good Parts (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/) - High Performance Javascript (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802806/) It's always a good time to buy a few classics: - Information Architecture for the WWW (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527341/) - Javascript: The definitive guide (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101992/) - Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046/)
- subsection1h 16y ago> Javascript: The definitive guide I'm waiting for the 6th edition: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531
- phjohnst 16y agoYou get free updates on eBooks, eh
- Lazlo_Nibble 16y agoDo you get free updates across editions? Seems unlikely to me.
- psyklic 16y agoYou get 50% off future ebook editions.
- mattyb 16y agoI'm buying 'R in a Nutshell' and 'The Art of Debugging with GDB and DDD'.
- Jun8 16y agoTheir server seems to be swamped. There's nothing like a unresponsive server to sober you up from a whimsical book purchase on a FRiday. I was trying to buy: * Making Things Talk (great into to networking with low-level HW) * The Best of Instructables (excellent selection of mostly simple projects, includes IKEA hacking)
- slantyyz 16y agoNice choices. I guess 70% savings is always enough to get everyone to take down their server.
- johkra 16y agoI'm getting Confessions of a Public Speaker, I was long interested in this book.
- tmsh 16y ago97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (ed. Kevlin Henney) is sort of nice reading. All pretty smart ideas so far, imho. Though I haven't finished reading it. (Like a lot of O'Reilly books these days, it's available in a free (legal) form on the internet too http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contributions_Appearing_in_the_Book http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contri... )
- runevault 16y agoI grabbed Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Tomcat: The definitive Guide 2nd ed (this one I have access to via ACM membership but those rotate out potentially so eh) Head first Statistics (my math skills are beyond rusty, and the head first books tend to be good. However either due to overload or something, while I was able to place my order, the books are not showing up in my available list yet. Figure I'll give them until tomorrow then throw an email at them asking what's wrong.
- mattyb 16y agoYep, same here. My order went through but the books haven't showed up yet.
- sriramk 16y agoMy book 'Programming Windows Azure' just came out today. :) I feel bad about plugging it here but hey, I put heart & soul into it for the last one year so I feel justified :). Obligatory O'Reilly and Amazon links http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801984 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801984 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596801971 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596801971 If it helps, I need to point out that my book is chock-full of Star Trek, BSG and Monty Python references and the surprising backstory of how Windows Azure's orginal code name came to be. :)
- nolochemical 16y agoBasically 5 books for the price of 1, sweet. I really like having real copies for reference, so this is a no brainer. - Understanding the Linux Kernel - Linux System Programming - Learning Python, Fourth Edition have only reviewed the following :- Android Application Development :- Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails :- Linux Appliance Design
- swombat 16y agoIf I had an iPad I might consider it to see if I can read on that, but I've found that I only ever read books when printed on the pulped, mangled, processed bodies of brutally murdered trees.
- wwortiz 16y agoEspecially for technical books where I end up flipping around pages back and forth something that the computer probably will never be able to model intuitively. Though I must say I like my kindle enough that it is readable for normal books. But there is just something about paper :)
- AndrejM 16y agoYes, if only such technology existed where you could swap between two bookmarks with a keypress. Or where you could jump to a particular page by just typing in a number.
- pasbesoin 16y agoThere are some distinct and useful qualities to the older, physical media. [Disclosure: The below is an old HN post I made.] The Social Life of Paper (2002) (newyorker.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434516 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434516 P.S. I also subscribe to Safari. It's nice not to lug a bunch of books around, but the reading experience I do find different between the two media.
- tzs 16y agoFrom what I've seen, O'Reilly material works well on iPad. I have a subscription to Safari Library, and have tried using it three ways on my iPad. 1. For those books that support the HTML view, I've read them in the browser from the Safari Library web site. These have been excellent, including diagrams and code snippets. One or two books have had slight formatting problems (a line of example code not wrapping). 2. For books that don't support the HTML view, or books that I've downloaded as PDFs (part of the my subscription is a certain number of "download tokens" that can be redeemed to download chapters or whole books), I've read then in GoodReader. This has worked out fine. 3. Finally, they offer some books for download in EPub format. I've tried those in iBooks, and they've been good. I've also used the free program Calibre to convert some of the PDFs I downloaded to EPub and they have worked fine. I am quite pleased with the combination of O'Reilly Safari Library and my iPad. Oh, they've also announced that this summer there will be a Safari Library iPad application. That should be interesting.
- bitboxer 16y agoHm...Server seems very busy, can't place my order :(
- slantyyz 16y agoYeah I got tossed on checkout too. There's a major nerdgasm going on there.
- ydant 16y agoFor anyone else trying to find this out and finding the site to be amazingly slow: Use coupon code FAVFA - prices won't be discounted until check-out. It works for multiple books, although the headline looks like it's for a single book.
- Terretta 16y ago> it works for multiple books FYI: Looks like ordering multiple books created issues getting delivery of yesterday's purchases. I also lost the discount after checkout. Today's order pricing isn't what was reflected at checkout. Today the two titles I bought in two orders are listed as "registered" under the registered books area. Order status on both orders reflects "BOOKED", but shipped is 0, download link is not active, and the books are not listed in the downloads section. One purchase shows the discount, the other reflects full price without discount. An email to O'Reilly auto-responded with this: > Thank you for contacting O'Reilly Media Customer Service. We are experiencing a very heavy volume of orders due to our recent promotion. This is affecting the delivery and access of your electronic media. Please be patient and keep checking your account. TL;DR: Buyers should double-check orders to see what was actually charged.
- Terretta 16y agoO'Reilly is catching up, and fixing order discounts too: _____________________ I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I checked your account and you now have access. You can download your ebook here: https://members.oreilly.com/account/emedia https://members.oreilly.com/account/emedia There were issues with our servers on Friday due to high loads, and we've been working to make sure everyone received the content they purchased. We have refunded you the amount that you would have saved if the discount code was applied to one of your orders. Please allow 5-7 business days for the credit to appear on your statement. Thank you again for your orders and for your understanding. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance. Best Regards, O'Reilly Media Customer Service _____________________ Thanks, O'Reilly.
- rbanffy 16y agoI guess they gave themselves a DDoS...
- CWuestefeld 16y agoFree to Choose ebook deal of the day Oddly, "Free to Choose" (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_to_Choose https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_to_Choos... ) is not one of the books that you can buy.
- AndrewO 16y agoAnyone know if this includes Rough Cuts?
- just_the_tip 16y agoYou can get $5 O'Reilly EPUBs from the App Store everyday. Extracting an epub from an iPhone app is easy. First you unzip the .ipa file. Then you cd to Payload/*/book. Finally, you zip up the files to an .epub file: zip -X ~/book.epub mimetype && zip -r9DX ~/book.epub META-INF OEBPS. mimetype must be first in the archive for validity, which you can test with EpubCheck.
- ydant 16y agoInteresting. I just checked on the Android Google Market and found several of the books I was considering were just $5. They are in multi-file HTML format inside the APK, so this is even cheaper and given I wanted them on the Android phone/tablet anyway, easier. Even better the eBook app O'Reilly delivers has an "Export to ePub" button that will send it to an ePub on your sdcard.
- anotherperson 16y agoThis is definitely a hacky way to go. I just tried it with Matz’s Ruby book. Reading it with Stanza on OSX is just about the ugliest digital reading experience outside of scanned text. Oh well, it only set me back 5 bucks.
- just_the_tip 16y agoIt's an issue of using a subpar client, not a subpar format. I have yet to find a decent epub reader for a computer. Stanza for iPhone, iBooks, and dedicated hardware render epubs beautifully.
- dpritchett 16y agoStrangely this promotion led me to pick up the "MEAP" edition of Clojure in Action from Manning Publications. I already had The Joy of Clojure and I wanted to see the other side. I can't think of anything O'Reilly offers that I want to read right now aside from maybe Agile Web Development with Rails.
- DannoHung 16y agoCool, I've been thinking about getting an eBook version of RWH because I can just never seem to find the time to read it at home.
- dtf 16y agoExciting headline; miserable experience. We're sorry, an error has occurred in our application. So now I've finally given up after the tenth attempt. I guess O'Reilly won't be selling me that copy of Building Scalable Websites after all.
- DannoHung 16y agoMy order went through, but I can't access my book :(
- abronte 16y agoSame here, when I go to the "emedia" page, it sits there loading for a good 3 minutes, then says I don't have anything to download.
- drawkbox 16y agoAppears to be a common trend, same situation here for iPhone 3D I just got and was excited to 'download immediately' but I get 'no data' or no books to download.
- thirdstation 16y agoI called them and the rep said it's b/c of the load. She assured me that it will show up eventually.
- runevault 16y agoKinda figured this would be the case, was planning on waiting until tomorrow to bug them. Glad to hear someone already got it confirmed though.
- seltzered 16y agoIt's midnight CST, and I finally saw one of my five books purchased ("Head First Design Patterns") show up. Hopefully the rest will follow...
- kingtoe 16y agoThis caught my eye... And then I remembered that my safaribooksonline subscription lets me read all the o'reilly books I want, and thousands of other tech books, for $20.00 a month. For anyone who wants to use this coupon, I'm not sure why you wouldn't just get yourself a month on safari... or a free trial for that matter.... Any ideas?
- nkassis 16y agoThey should have made it a 2 hour sale or something, I'm up to 6 books and need to stop before I get tempted by something else.
- Alex63 16y agoSeems like this is a popular promotion, based on their website performance. I wonder if it will make anyone reconsider the recent controversy over Amazon's pricing for Kindle editions. Seems like lots of people are willing to buy e-books for $9.99.
- robryan 16y agoYeah at $9.99 it's worth picking up things for a look. At $30-$40 you want to be sure you'll have the time to read it and it's something useful/ interesting.
- scorpioxy 16y agoExactly. Plus, $30-$40 for an ebook doesn't seem fair to me. Before ebook prices started coming down, I had stopped buying tech books because they're very expensive and become obsolete in a few months.
- xsmasher 16y agoThese are technical books that retail for $30-$60; so $9 is a great price. Amazon is charging $12-$13 for some novels that sell in hardback for $15, and $6.99 for some novels that are $7.99 in paperback. That's not such a great deal.
- dreyfiz 16y agoGreat suggestions from this thread, thanks all. Wound up getting: R in a Nutshell, 1Ed Real World Haskell, 1Ed iPhone Game Development, 1Ed Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running, 1Ed JavaScript: The Good Parts, 1Ed Programming Collective Intelligence, 1Ed Head First Statistics, 1Ed Head First Data Analysis, 1Ed Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1Ed iPhone 3D Programming, 1Ed
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI wonder how many books they sold for smaller languages people are curious about. Haskell, R, Erlang, etc.
- runevault 16y agoOut of curiosity anyone able to download their books yet? The loading data screen no longer hangs for 20+ seconds, but it still doesn't find the books.
- metamemetics 16y agoI was feeling adventurous and settled on an erlang book.
- slantyyz 16y agoI think there are some valuable lessons to be learned by this sale for O'Reilly, tech publishers and authors. * 9.99 standard pricing will result in incredibly high sales volumes (the servers would not nearly have been overloaded if everyone wasn't clamoring to get their purchases in before the deadline) * Publishers and authors need to decide whether they want larger margins w/low volumes - I am of the understanding that selling 5k copies is considered a best seller in the tech market - instead of lower margins with higher volumes. I'm hoping that the results of yesterday's sale might make them consider the first point above. It would be interesting to see if O'Reilly released some statistics on book sales in the wake of yesterday's server bloodbath. Myself, I bought a pile of books that I otherwise would not have bought. I have an O'Reilly Safari subscription that is already saving me tons of money, and the low price just pushed me over the edge to buy some local copies of books that I might have otherwise just had in my bookshelf for a month.
- anirudh 16y ago5/21/2010 — Due to heavy server volume you may experience trouble downloading your ebook orders. We expect to have the issue resolved soon. Please continue to check back or contact our Customer Service: accounts@oreilly.com