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The death of the DRM-free model was a big concern to me, but a recent supplementary blog post from Laura Baldwin, linked-to in the article but not called out, s
by reidacdc 9y ago
The death of the DRM-free model was a big concern to me, but a recent supplementary blog post from Laura Baldwin, linked-to in the article but not called out, seems to claim that O'Reilly books will still be available DRM-free from Google Books. It's not clear to me if this means the Google Play e-book store, or something else.
Blog post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oreilly-mission-spreading-knowledge-innovators-laura-baldwin https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oreilly-mission-spreading-kno...
- llasram 9y agoI'm just a consumer, but Google Play Books are in fact available for DRM-free download when so-requested by the publisher. Or least that's the reason Google gives when directly providing the book as a DRM-free download.
- runevault 9y agoCheck other comments, they aren't the quality PDFs previously available from the O'Reilly site, but crappy conversions from epub.
- sqldba 9y agoYeah. Also I'd rather not give Google my money. If something goes wrong I don't like my chances of getting it back. At least with O'Reilly you could talk to a human.