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>(http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/06/select-oreilly-books-soon-on-kindle-and-as-drm-free-digital-bundle.html).
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Select O'Reilly Books Soon on Kindle, and as DRM-free Digital Bundles
(Including EPUB)
Andrew Savikas
June 18, 2008
Ebooks are certainly nothing new for us at O'Reilly. We've offered
PDFs of hundreds of our titles for some time now, and until quite
recently Safari Books Online, our online-publishing joint venture with
Pearson, generated more revenue than was typically associated with the
entire downloadable ebook business.
But it's clear that things are changing in the ebook market (though
precise numbers are proving hard to come by), so we've decided to
officially announce two new e-publishing programs that have been in
the works for some time:
* First, through oreilly.com we will offer a select number of
books as a bundle of three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and
Kindle-compatible Mobipocket) for a single price -- at or below the
book's cover price -- starting in early July. Since we began selling
PDFs directly some time ago, we've given those customers free updates
to the PDFs to reflect published changes in the books; the same will
apply to the ebook bundle, which will replace the PDF option on those
titles. That also means that although the ebooks aren't yet available,
if you buy the PDF now, you'll receive the EPUB and Mobipocket
versions as a free update once they're available in early July. These
files (like all our PDFs currently for sale) will be released without
any DRM, though we are exploring some custom watermarking options.
With these three formats, customers should be able to read the books
with most current ebook software and devices, including Adobe Digital
Editions, Kindle, Blackberries, and Sony Reader (Sony announced in May
that EPUB support is forthcoming in a firmware update for their
Reader).
* Second, O'Reilly has agreed to sell select ebooks for the Kindle
through Amazon. We hope to see those ebooks available for sale through
the Kindle store in the near future.
[...]
We do intend to eventually offer as much of our catalog as possible as
ebooks (some titles have rights restrictions; others are so old they
present challenges from a format-conversion standpoint), but the July
pilot program will be limited to a few dozen, including the titles
listed below. Any of these can be purchased as a PDF right away, with
the full ebook bundle provided in early July as a free update:
* iPhone: The Missing Manual
* Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
* Facebook: The Missing Manual
* Making Things Happen
* Open Sources 2.0
* The Art of Agile Development
* Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3ed
We'll announce the full list of titles when they're all available in
early July.
[...]
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