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Did piracy really kill OReilly's previous business model? I was sad when they morphed into a weird subscription service
by kyleee 6y ago
Did piracy really kill OReilly's previous business model? I was sad when they morphed into a weird subscription service
- acomjean 6y agoI can find a specific reference, but it they made a bid deal of being DRM free a decade ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368560 If ebook sales where working well, I suspect they wouldn't have gotten rid of them.
- aplusbi 6y agoThey still sell DRM free books, just through other stores like Google Play. The reason they switched to subscriptions was because of the cost of running an ebook store and the low ROI.