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by espeed • 13 years ago

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haraball• 13 years ago

O'Reilly is having sale and discounts so often that I avoid buying books at the full price while waiting for a coupon. This often ends with me forgetting about the book and not buying it at all.

kops4• 13 years ago

Same here. But on rare occasions when I do avail the buy-one-get-one-free offer, the second book invariably goes unread.

Also does anyone know why these 50% discount offers are limited to ebooks only?

cmaggard• 13 years ago

Because the margin is obviously higher on ebooks than print books. I imagine that more profit is made on an ebook sale at 50% off than a print book at full price.

ghc• 13 years ago

It's silly to keep posting every O'Reilly eBook sale to HN. This is basically just free advertising for them. The 50% discount is nothing special: If you sign up for a membership you get a permanent buy-one-get-one-free discount that O'Reilly interprets as a 50% discount on each book. So just sign up for a membership, wait until you have two books you want to buy, and get a 50% discount without having to wait for a sale.

diab0lic• 13 years ago

If I'm not mistaken, and I may well be, you can actually use that code on a single book and it'll work just fine as a 50% off as well. So basically you can get 50% off at any given time, the sales are completely a marketing technique.

prawks• 13 years ago

I wish they'd have some sales on physical books. Maybe it's just my traditional thinking, but I have a hard time paying $20+ for a pdf. I understand the publisher needs money, the author has to eat, and the printing costs aren't really a whole ton that you can reduce the price with, but it still just doesn't sit right with me.

I feel like and old curmudgeon.

Side edit: In what kind of strange world does the 2nd edition of an eBook still fetch $32 while the 3rd edition is $36?

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780735618794.do

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145385512.do?code=B2S3

ehamberg• 13 years ago

Just for the record: You don't just get a PDF. You get a real e-book too.

ekianjo3• 13 years ago

WHatever. you are missing the point. Copying ebooks cost no money at all, there's no reason an ebook should cost that much in the first place. Dead Tree books were heavily dependent on material and inventory costs, ebooks do not suffer any of those yet they are still sold at similar pricing while they should be at least 90% cheaper, if you just kept the margin at the same level. It's pure profit for the publisher.

Refefer• 13 years ago

I'm with you: I like good old dead tree books for so many reasons such as writing in the margins. They should follow Manning books philosophy and also discount physical books as well, a feature which has resulted in my acquiring 10+ books by them.

soedgy• 13 years ago

dead tree books

Go back to reddit, kid.

espeed• 13 years ago

Manning is doing up to 50% off on any purchase this weekend, including physical books:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs172/1101335703814/archi...

samuel• 13 years ago

BTW, Oreilly books can be bought on Google play(epub only) by less than 4 eur. Not the newest ones, though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=O%27Reilly+M...

mjhoy2• 13 years ago

I just picked up Understanding Computation and, having made it through the first two chapters at this point, heartily recommend it. If anyone wants to have a little reading group, I'd be interested.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025481.do

tomstuart• 13 years ago

Author here. Thanks for the recommendation! There’s already a reading group in London (http://lanyrd.com/series/compbookclub/), but that may not be of any use to you.

If anyone else is interested in the book, there's more information at http://computationbook.com/.

mjhoy2• 13 years ago

Absolutely. I'm glad you wrote it, seems like an unexpected way to approach the subject, and I can see where e.g. this comment[1] comes from. But I think it's quite valuable and inspires me (lacking any CS degree) to pursue further study.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1isawq/understa...

polynomial• 13 years ago

This is pretty unnecessary here.

jacobbudin• 13 years ago

O'Reilly uses a department store pricing structure.

There's almost always a sale, and for eBooks, the sale price is usually not much cheaper than Amazon.com's (or other sellers) "everyday" price. Only suckers pay full-price for their eBooks.

benjamincburns• 13 years ago

I'd love to see them do a Steam-style sale where all eBooks are $0.99 for 24h (or something similar).

film42• 13 years ago

Maybe this is bad to say, but whenever it comes to "me needing a book" the first thing I do is google "$BOOK_NAME pdf" and check it out.

There is a catch though.. if I find the book a good asset, then I make sure to buy it, but otherwise it just doesn't make sense to gamble $20+ on a book that will be outdated in a year, unlike literature.

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