It still seems to be restrictive and pricey to me. The 30 "books"-a-month at a one time yearly fee is $300. At the end of the year, what do you have? Another $300 bill for the next year. And how many books do you have access too, if you don't dish out another $300, ZERO.
With bookpool.com, for $300 I can buy quite a few books, that I will still have after one year. Granted after 3 or 4 years those books will be retired, but they definitely paid for themselves. And if my site is slow to upgrade then I may keep my books for even longer...some sites are still running Oracle7. Additionally, paper books are great since you can highlight, mark, scribble notes, attach tabs to the page, etc. Obviously, if I work for a company that has deep pockets then they can pay the bill, but that doesn't appear to be the case today. I love Oreilly books, I just don't like the Safari Bookshelf website deal. This business model needs more work...perhaps they have snagged 9,999 customers, but if they dropped the prices and dropped the restrictions then they will get 999,999,999,999,999 customers. (stepping down from my soapbox, my apologies for my off-topic ranting and raving, thank God it's Friday) -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I believe the Book Safari is changing. It is supposed to be more flexible now. http://www.oreilly.com/news/new_safari_0902.html Jared "Grabowy, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/08/2002 01:04 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... So every few months my Lookout reminder pops up to remind me to check out what new Oracle books have been released. I stumbled upon a new book called CodeNotes for Oracle9i on Amazon.com, but the interesting part is that it is available in eBook format. Here's the (probably broken) link... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006ISCN/qid=1034101493/ sr=1-25/ref=sr_1_25/104-5919725-7522346?v=glance The eBook version is $9.95 and the shipping is free (big grin), while the paperback is $13.97 plus shipping. Are you comfortable reading an eBook? You decide. At any rate, I will probably break down and buy the eBook. Not so much because the book is great (or not) but because I hope to send a message to publishers to publish more books in the eBook format, which is also why I posted this message. I know that O'Reilly has the Safari Bookshelf website, but I found it to be restrictive and pricey. BTW, if for some reason you are or will be using .Net, the CodeNotes eBook version is free... http://www.codenotes.com/do/downloads/downloadsNETbook -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Grabowy, Chris INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Grabowy, Chris INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
