>In fact, let me take this one step further. I've been told recently >(although I might be misremembering) that O'Reilly will publish NO >MORE CDs because of rampant piracy.
Last I heard, Safari was going to make it *easier* for you to read books offline, which sounds like they're just removing the CD, not the digital rendering, from the equation. I personally see more Safari rips than CD rips nowadays. From "O'Reilly's E-Book Strategy": http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/ebooks_1103.html "This is perfect timing for phase two of our e-book strategy. Having built the Safari database, we can now offer additional services beyond the web browser interface. These include a custom textbook project (in which professors can mix and match sections from Safari books with their own classroom materials to build their own class-specific textbooks), A DOWNLOADABLE OPTION for Safari subscribers, and a series of shorter documents sold by the piece, à la GnomeTomes." Emphasis mine. What format these downloadables take, I'm not sure, because earlier, Tim remarks about PDFs in general: "It's my belief that simply putting a book into some kind of PDF or other representation of the printed book is like pointing a camera at a stage play and calling it a movie." -- Morbus Iff ( softcore vulcan pr0n rulezzzzz ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
