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This is surely the unspoken element of O'Reilly's change here, piracy of technical PDFs is rampant.
by EwanToo 9y ago
This is surely the unspoken element of O'Reilly's change here, piracy of technical PDFs is rampant.
- subpixel 9y agoThe thing is, by making pdfs harder to get through legit channels they are going to increase traffic through illegitimate channels. It's not about how many files are available, it's about how many people are looking for them.
- jamespo 9y agoNot if they stop making PDFs full stop
- kronos29296 9y agoYeah stop book photocopying by not publishing books is the best way to do it. Then they are no longer book publishers just another website with a premium subscription.
- chris_wot 9y agoPeople like me will just publish directly to gitbook
- throwaway2048 9y agoIf you think this makes piracy harder in any way, you are badly mistaken. It only takes one person to "break" whatever protection there is on the content, its almost entirely irrelevant just how much protection is on that content, because only one person needs to go through the process.
- gregjwild 9y agoIf someone can't pirate "X in a Nutshell", they'll pirate "Learning X". Either way, nobody is getting their money. No point losing customers over it.