O'Reilly Media No Longer Selling DRM Free Books

This is so disappointing ... my favorite way to read a book was purchase on oreilly.com, and download the ePub to iBooks or Google Play Books (tablet reading). If the ePub wasn't great, which is common for tech lit, I'd use the PDF in OS X Preview instead.

Safari is too expensive, and a lot of technical stuff looks like crap on Kindle / AZW.

Also, publishers like Manning aren't on Safari so the subscription only covers some of the materials I read.

I feel like I just got punched in the stomach.

This makes me sad. It was great to purchase books directly from O'reilly to learn more about technologies I was working with and to purchase the occasional half priced daily special that just looked interesting. PDF format was the best for preserving the book's format. I've had enough problems with kindle-formatted technical books that I won't be buying O'reilly books from Amazon. $40/month or $400/year for Safari online is a little too steep for my budget.

Hey everyone. This is my first submission on Hacker News. O'Reilly also created a short blog post announcing their shift from selling ebooks direct to Safari subscription service and Amazon.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too

So, no more DRM free ebooks, no more multiple format ebooks and Safari subscription cannot be used offline and cannot be used out of their apps.

Difficult to buy more O'Reilly books