$4.99 O'Reilly ebooks through Oct 31

[da]

Unclutterer reports that O'Reilly tech books has an ebook promotion for $4.99 per book you already own. This looks quite useful to me:

- O'Reilly ebooks come as a bundle of three common formats (mobi, pdf, epub)
- they are un-copyprotected, a.k.a. not locked to existing software/hardware readers
- while only a fraction of their books are currently available in ebook, some others are also available as pdf

To get the $4.99 books, you need to make an account on their site, register the ISBNs of your books, add them each to your cart, and use the 499UP discount code. I tested one book, and it appears to work.

I may just have to get busy with our barcode-reader at work, since that's where my O'Reilly books live now. I figure at least a dozen of my books are worth future-proofing in case I eventually buy a portable bookreader. :)

Comments

[ng-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

You may also be interested in the apress deal of the day, if you weren't already aware of it. (I wasn't until I passed along your link to a coworker.)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I didn't. It's too bad they aren't promoting this well; my Perl Mongers group is registered to get their email. It's also too bad you have to actually visit their page, since that would do nicely as an RSS feed.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I think I've gotten rid of all my O'Reilly books over time. :( So it's $4.99 per book you already own *for those books*, or for any book? (What I mean is, can I get the book I already own in paper as an eBook, or is it that for each paper book I own, I can get a *different* book as an eBook?)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

The intent is for ebooks you already have as paper books.

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Cool! I love the ORA books as reference books, but paper is not readily grepable. (greppable?) I'll have to see what I have that is even remotely up to date; my "DNS Configuration" book from fifteen years ago is probably not worth porting.