[RndTbl] Fwd: O'Reilly online shop no longer selling individual books and videos

[Adam Thompson]

ORA (O'Reilly & Associates) Safari is their online eBook all-you-can-read subscription service which includes every ORA book and quite a lot of others as well.
I believe it predates the Apple Safari browser.

Safari subscriptions are obviously healthy enough, and individual book sales weak enough, that they figure it's not worth maintaining a retail storefront anymore.

Although there's no mention that I saw either way, I would assume you can continue to purchase ORA books like every other book, though booksellers (including Amazon, of course).

Based on what I've heard from other publishers, Amazon - which likely represents the bulk of their print sales nowadays - punishes publishers who compete directly with Amazon, especially those that discount their books even further.  ORA didn't discount further, but did offer the eBook with the print edition.

So they decided to go back to their roots as a publisher, plus a subscription service.  It's their right to change things.  Although I do wish *something* would stay the same these days.  Something good, I mean - government incompetence and inefficiency seems to be a constant even though I wish that would change!

-Adam

On June 28, 2017 7:22:21 PM CDT, Hartmut W Sager <hwsager at marityme.net> wrote:
>Huh???  I am stunned!  And, it's "as of today".  No prior notice?  What
>happened there so suddenly?
>
>I am also somewhat confused by the alternative ways of buying O'Reilly
>books.  I don't know what this Safari thing is all about for buying
>books -
>I thought Safari is an alternate browser.
>
>Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: O'Reilly Media <oreilly at post.oreilly.com>
>Date: 28 June 2017 at 17:57
>Subject: Changes to the O'Reilly shop
>To: hwsager at marityme.net
>
>
>[image: And important things about your O'Reilly account]
>Hartmut W,
>Things are changing at the O'Reilly online shop—as of today, we are no
>longer selling individual books and videos via shop.oreilly.com
><http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zgfkjioneh7iokn0pr9j4vufbndd548d8vlvbg38>.
>Of course, we'll continue to publish books and videos on the topics you
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