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Does this include technical books? O'Reilly and Manning seem to have substantial customers. Or is the licensing of PDFs excluded from such figures?
by thyrsus 2y ago
Does this include technical books? O'Reilly and Manning seem to have substantial customers. Or is the licensing of PDFs excluded from such figures?
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- bombcar 2y agoTechnical books are part of it, and O’Reilly can probably do much more accurate forecasting on their titles than others do, but they still have total reach problems. If I think of all the technical things I’ve done, there are some I’ve bought lots of books for, and others I’ve never bought a book at all, including some relatively major languages.
- _delirium 2y agoThe article only covers data for the Big Five publishers, who are: Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan.