from the good-stuff-from-good-folks-at-good-prices dept.
Anti-DRM company O’Reilly Media announces a Cyber Monday Sale [JavaScript required].
Save 50% on All Ebooks & Videos
Save 60% on orders greater than $100!Ebooks and video training from shop.oreilly.com are DRM-free. You get free lifetime access, multiple file formats, and free updates. Sync with Dropbox and Google Drive--your files, anywhere.
Use discount code CYBER16 -- Deal expires [Tuesday] November 29, 2016 at 5:00am PT, and cannot be combined with other offers. Offer does not apply to Print or "Print & Ebook" bundle pricing.
There is also a Humble Bundle of O'Reilly books on all aspects of UNIX available for nine more days. It is not in connected to the above deal, but you can name your own price for an impressive array of books.
[Ed note: I struggled with the decision on whether or not to run this story which could well be considered a "slashvertisement". O'Reilly publishes one of the largest selections of computer-related books. Books can be quite expensive, so if price has been holding you back, here is a chance to get that long-wished-for title at a discount.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:01AM
Clearly, it's a Soyvertisement
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 28 2016, @12:47AM
Yes, you disgusting American pigs, I make two people like you in the toilet every morning.
Kill yourselves over a $20 discount off Chinese-made flatscreen 40" televisions. Fight to the death, you pigs! Waste your whole day standing outside in line of a store showing utter disregard for your families, other fellow Americans, and your very dignity.
You are deezgusting. Peegs! Disgusting savage pigs! Gross!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by coolgopher on Monday November 28 2016, @12:24AM
Thanks for running it, I would have missed it otherwise. O'Reilly is sufficiently topical here I'd say.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:34AM
I use Safari Books Online [safaribooksonline.com] and get full access to all the O'Reilly titles as well as a ton of other stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @01:36AM
$400/year?
Do you even get to keep copies or is it online only?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:54AM
$400 a year seems high, but that's the cost of one or two books per month? With two in college and two in high school the research books available from the other the other publishers are a life saver. Plus, I am no longer investing in bookcases.
You can download parts of or whole books based on a token system, but I never need to download them because they are all available all the time. Plus, why buy (or download) a whole tech book for the handful of chapters (if that) that you really want/need? How many times do I need to learn what a variable is or a loop?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:16PM
I don't buy anywhere near that many books per year.
And if you stop paying, everything goes poof!
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday November 28 2016, @04:22PM
Yes, it does seem high.
This is because it is, in fact, high like a troop of crack-addicted monkeys discovering a warehouse full of cooked-up rock and glass pipes.
In my Calibre library, and on my android tablet that I use for reading e-books, I can decide not to purchase additional books indefinitely if I choose to, and all the books stay right there in my local storage for when I am ready to read them or refer to them. I can convert them, copy them, whatever. I have the epub files on a local intranet for access on whatever device I might be using. Etc.
I add new tech books, of course, but to be honest anymore I learn more tech skills from stack exchange than from proper packaged books. If it comes to that, Calibre imports html pretty well for preservation and later reference. I definitely don't spend $30 - $40 each and every month as a committed sum on a certain genre of books; some months it's money, and some months it's "Hey, look what I found today."
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I would never. But I would have to be sufficiently filthy rich not to miss the money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @05:08PM
I'm OK with the cost because of everything it offers my business and my family. YMMV
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:26AM
Seriously, if you're not an app billionaire by now, you have no future in tech. Stop wasting your money buying tech books.
The End
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:44AM
I don't do JavaScript and I didn't have any problem reading the page.
(When a page won't work for me, I add an archive.li link if that works OK.)
Now, the page's HTML construction is HORRIBLE. 101 Errors [w3.org]
When I tried to find a useful #FragmentIdentifier, my browser strained with their crap code and I did think for a bit that my browser had locked up.
For a tech-oriented site, not impressive.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 28 2016, @04:39AM
I seem to be getting all the layout and nonsense on the periphery but missing the main text. There's a large space where I presume something informative and useful might appear but it's mostly blank, with "Spend More, Save More
Save 60% on orders greater than $100!" taking up only a small fraction of it, and clicking links produces the same result after a reload so... this is trash.
I know they have a lot of fans and I've even enjoyed a few of their books that have been handed to me, but it's impossible to take someone seriously as a 'tech publisher' when their own web presence is so incompetent and inaccessible.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @08:00AM
getting all the layout and nonsense on the periphery but missing the main text
Hmmm. I must be blocking the stupid junk that is screwing it up for you.
Tried View + No Style ?
I did mention that their HTML is HORRIBLE.
Seems obvious that their "web developer" (and the guy who checked his work before they paid him--Heh) "verified" that by looking at it in Internet Exploder.
it's impossible to take someone seriously as a 'tech publisher' when their own web presence is so incompetent
That pretty much covers my reaction.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @07:51PM
The page is readable for me, with CSS disabled. Thanks for posting the "story."
(Score: 3, Touché) by requerdanos on Monday November 28 2016, @03:34AM
Your browser may have been hijacked.
Please carefully verify that the site's address in your address bar begins with h, t, t, p, s, colon, slash, slash, s, o, y, l, e, n, t, n, e, w, s, dot, o, r, g, and not some other site name. You might also check that the theme is a rounded fire-engine red (or pale puke green, or one of the other colors selectable on soylentnews) and not a dark green square-looking theme.
I know it's tedious to do this each time, but deceptive links and browser hijacking are a fact of life in the Internet we live in, unfortunately, and probably will continue to be until RFC 3514 [ietf.org] is properly and universally implemented.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday November 29 2016, @04:45PM
Whoa, you should totally get involved in politics run for facebook.
Just think of the powers of good you can harness if you enforce evil bit implementation, and honor among IP packets! Right now, there is no honor among streams.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday November 29 2016, @05:42PM
On a serious note I wanted to say thanks to OriginalOwner and to martyb for posting this.
I did buy this bundle (I paid $9) which delivered 12 books about command line tools for 75¢ each, and O'Reilly [oreilly.com] are known to be the best in the business [wikipedia.org] and have been for decades. Also, down with DRM [defectivebydesign.org].