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But there are no DRM free high quality PDFs ... if you download a PDF from Play Books its a conversion.

Buttons840 9y ago
Can you given some more details? A screen shot demonstrating the low quality would be nice. Not that I don't what your saying. Hopefully OReilly wanted only to cut costs, and is still willing to make high quality preorders and DRM free media available through some other source.
- nindalf 9y ago
  Here's a guy who shared a side-by-side comparison of Google and O' Reilly's editions of Designing Data Intensive Applications - https://mobile.twitter.com/kondrej/status/880540236303880193 https://mobile.twitter.com/kondrej/status/880540236303880193
  - jacobolus 9y ago
    That seems to be two different screenshots of different parts of the Google version. The typesetting is pretty bad.
  - tren 9y ago
    We still sell all O'Reilly books DRM free in both PDF and ePUB. i.e. http://www.ebooks.com/95729334/designing-data-intensive-applications/kleppmann-martin/ http://www.ebooks.com/95729334/designing-data-intensive-appl.... If you click on preview (on a desktop), the preview is composed of images rendered from the PDF.
    - Buttons840 9y ago
      Why does that page you linked have a list of supported devices? It looks to me like ebooks.com does use DRM.
      - tren 9y ago
        You're correct, it should have different info for DRM free books under the supported devices section. We do use DRM at ebooks.com, but only for the publishers that enforce us to use it (99% of publishers).
    - SSLy 9y ago
      >DRM-free >supported on "e-readers with Adobe Digital Editions installed" Someone is incorrect here.
      - Crontab 9y ago
        The second statement is probably boilerplate but is concerning.
        tren 9y ago
        Yes, you're right, it's boilerplate and needs to be updated to reflect that O'Reilly books are DRM-free and can be read on any device, I'll get it updated tomorrow.
      - tjl 9y ago
        Looking at the info about the formats for that book it seems that the ePub and PDF are unrestricted.
      - tren 9y ago
        Thanks for the feedback, the boilerplate template was wrong. We've updated product description pages so they're clearer now (Clearly states DRM free)
    - voltagex_ 9y ago
      I really want to support you, but $42AUD is many times more than it would have cost on oreilly.com.
  - drej 9y ago
    Actually, that's just two screenshots from the same Google Play version. A side-by-side with O'Reilly's PDF is striking https://twitter.com/kondrej/status/881120506161876992 https://twitter.com/kondrej/status/881120506161876992

Can you given some more details? A screen shot demonstrating the low quality would be nice. Not that I don't what your saying. Hopefully OReilly wanted only to cut costs, and is still willing to make high quality preorders and DRM free media available through some other source.

nindalf 9y ago
Here's a guy who shared a side-by-side comparison of Google and O' Reilly's editions of Designing Data Intensive Applications - https://mobile.twitter.com/kondrej/status/880540236303880193 https://mobile.twitter.com/kondrej/status/880540236303880193
- jacobolus 9y ago
  That seems to be two different screenshots of different parts of the Google version. The typesetting is pretty bad.
- tren 9y ago
  We still sell all O'Reilly books DRM free in both PDF and ePUB. i.e. http://www.ebooks.com/95729334/designing-data-intensive-applications/kleppmann-martin/ http://www.ebooks.com/95729334/designing-data-intensive-appl.... If you click on preview (on a desktop), the preview is composed of images rendered from the PDF.
  - Buttons840 9y ago
    Why does that page you linked have a list of supported devices? It looks to me like ebooks.com does use DRM.
    - tren 9y ago
      You're correct, it should have different info for DRM free books under the supported devices section. We do use DRM at ebooks.com, but only for the publishers that enforce us to use it (99% of publishers).
  - SSLy 9y ago
    >DRM-free >supported on "e-readers with Adobe Digital Editions installed" Someone is incorrect here.
    - Crontab 9y ago
      The second statement is probably boilerplate but is concerning.
      - tren 9y ago
        Yes, you're right, it's boilerplate and needs to be updated to reflect that O'Reilly books are DRM-free and can be read on any device, I'll get it updated tomorrow.
    - tjl 9y ago
      Looking at the info about the formats for that book it seems that the ePub and PDF are unrestricted.
    - tren 9y ago
      Thanks for the feedback, the boilerplate template was wrong. We've updated product description pages so they're clearer now (Clearly states DRM free)
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    I really want to support you, but $42AUD is many times more than it would have cost on oreilly.com.
- drej 9y ago
  Actually, that's just two screenshots from the same Google Play version. A side-by-side with O'Reilly's PDF is striking https://twitter.com/kondrej/status/881120506161876992 https://twitter.com/kondrej/status/881120506161876992