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A good publisher has nothing to fear from Stack Overflow. I suspect the site exists instead because the company wants to have a web site with a lot of traffic
by chromatic 17y ago
A good publisher has nothing to fear from Stack Overflow.
I suspect the site exists instead because the company wants to have a web site with a lot of traffic but isn't willing to pay anyone to write things people want to read. Thus their solution is to reuse material from books and convince people to contribute original material in exchange for badges and coupons.
The company's launched quite a few experiments on the web, only to abandon them a couple of months later. Perhaps this one will last longer than three months; it appears they've actually put some money into it.
- telemachos 17y ago> I suspect the site exists instead because the company wants to have a web site with a lot of traffic but isn't willing to pay anyone to write things people want to read. Thus their solution is to reuse material from books and convince people to contribute original material in exchange for badges and coupons. And the material not reused from books (both some posts and most of the answers so far, perhaps all of the answers so far) comes from various O'Reilly employees who have a new responsibility: "seeding O'Reilly answers."