Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

O’Reilly creates a large section of “free” books on technology. Once again, they have raised expectations of other publishers.

I have long liked O’Reilly publishing. At first, the books with the excellent sketches of animals caught my eye. The content was usually as good or better than the covers. I attended a few conferences the O’Reilly held. They spoiled me as to how good conference presentations and presenters could be.

O’Reilly has recently put many books online for reading at no charge. Here is a link to the programming section of free books. At the bottom of the page, there are links to free books on other topics.

This is excellent. I applaud O’Reilly. As a writer, I cringe a bit because the writers are not being paid, at least I don’t know how they could be paid when the publishers gives away the books. Well, they don’t give away the paper books, but allow us to read them without charge.

This is excellent. I applaud O’Reilly. I know several would-be college students who have no money and don’t want to be in debt to the taxpayers for the rest of their lives.