Giving the authors zero prior notice - that's rude! As a long-term buyer of lots of O'Reilly ebooks - it's disappointing, but it's their prerogative if they wa

Giving the authors zero prior notice - that's rude! As a long-term buyer of lots of O'Reilly ebooks - it's disappointing, but it's their prerogative if they want to exit the market. It's not like we entered into some lifetime contract where they agreed to sell me ebooks forever. From O'Reilly 's point of view, this looks rational though. Joel Spolsky [1] and Jeff Attwood [2] called it in 2008: >What is stackoverflow.com? >Nothing, yet. >But here’s the concept: >Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. Then they made doubly sure by making SO a huge success! In music publishing, most of the money in the mainstream has moved from music sales to live performances, with streaming subscriptions bring up the rear. Isn't the same thing likely happening here with O'Reilly's conference business probably dwarfing everything else? [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/04/16/stackoverflowcom/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/04/16/stackoverflowcom/ [2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-but-you-should/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...