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Atlas Beta – The new learning environment from O’Reilly

52 points by nonrecursive 12y ago

jonny2112 12y ago
Are these ebooks free now?
- MetricMike 12y ago
  From the bottom of the FAQ: Q. Will all content always be free? A. Probably not. As the site grows and we add more and different types of material, we’ll aim to offer a rich balance of free and paid content.
- cirosantilli 12y ago
  Also note that their to PDF compilation is not free: http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-books-locally/11 http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-b...
dugmartin 12y ago
The url should be changed to: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/about http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/about
mejarc 12y ago
I don't see an obvious way to access the non-book content. The "Read|Watch..." navigation only goes to /about.
- dugmartin 12y ago
  Once you register the buttons change when you look at each book. Most have a free html viewer option.
arafalov 12y ago
I am using it. My O'Reilly book is not announced yet, but you can join my (non-spammy) mailing list at http://www.solr-start.com/ http://www.solr-start.com/ to be the first to get details (and eventually discounts). Atlas is not bad. Backed by Git, auto-saves, UI editor with a couple of options (Asciidoc, Markdown, etc) and nice on-demand build system. Can do HTML, PDF, and ePub. Certainly a lot better than MSWord way of writing a book that I suffered through for my first (non O'Reilly) book. I am looking forward to when the editing process start, that part was the most painful last time. But I don't think this is open to a general public to be actually used (yet).
ivan_ah 12y ago
Looks like a proprietary version of: https://github.com/softcover/softcover https://github.com/softcover/softcover
ben_straub 12y ago
We use Atlas to build the e-book versions of Pro Git (which you can download at https://progit.org/ https://progit.org/). We don't use their editing system, though; it's basically a continuous-deployment system for the book, and it does a pretty great job at that.

52 points by nonrecursive 12y ago

jonny2112 12y ago

Are these ebooks free now?

MetricMike 12y ago
From the bottom of the FAQ: Q. Will all content always be free? A. Probably not. As the site grows and we add more and different types of material, we’ll aim to offer a rich balance of free and paid content.
cirosantilli 12y ago
Also note that their to PDF compilation is not free: http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-books-locally/11 http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-b...

dugmartin 12y ago

The url should be changed to: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/about http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/about

mejarc 12y ago

I don't see an obvious way to access the non-book content. The "Read|Watch..." navigation only goes to /about.

dugmartin 12y ago
Once you register the buttons change when you look at each book. Most have a free html viewer option.

arafalov 12y ago

I am using it. My O'Reilly book is not announced yet, but you can join my (non-spammy) mailing list at http://www.solr-start.com/ http://www.solr-start.com/ to be the first to get details (and eventually discounts). Atlas is not bad. Backed by Git, auto-saves, UI editor with a couple of options (Asciidoc, Markdown, etc) and nice on-demand build system. Can do HTML, PDF, and ePub. Certainly a lot better than MSWord way of writing a book that I suffered through for my first (non O'Reilly) book. I am looking forward to when the editing process start, that part was the most painful last time. But I don't think this is open to a general public to be actually used (yet).

ivan_ah 12y ago

Looks like a proprietary version of: https://github.com/softcover/softcover https://github.com/softcover/softcover

ben_straub 12y ago

We use Atlas to build the e-book versions of Pro Git (which you can download at https://progit.org/ https://progit.org/). We don't use their editing system, though; it's basically a continuous-deployment system for the book, and it does a pretty great job at that.