Interesting observation, Craig.
After reading your note I went and looked in the Market. I did a
search "o'reilly" to see what would come up. There were a great many
ebooks available for purchase. Just looking at the titles one cannot
see the original publisher so I did not check many by opening a full
description. The titles showed the VAST majority associated with
Microsoft technologies.
This is not so different from a physical book store but I was
disappointed that I did not see a single title associated with Linux.
There was one on using Git, a glimmer of more to come, maybe?
Alan
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> I was going to mention but did not...
>
> In the Android marketplace, there was a deluge of O'Reilly books
> released that felt like a spam wave. Curiously all of the books seemed
> to be Microsoft Press titles so I gathered that Microsoft Press paid
> O'Reilly to convert and release them but I rather seriously doubt that
> the android marketplace is going to big outlet for Microsoft Press
> titles (nor the iTunes store). I am gathering that this is a new project
> by O'Reilly and they have come up with technology to convert and release
> on a myriad of platforms.
>
> I think the idea is good though and hope to see all sorts of Linux
> publications from O'Reilly available in the Android Marketplace but
> didn't see them.
>
> Craig
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:25 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>> looks like a cool deal!
>>
>> Alan
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