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Book:		The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf
Subject:		Great, but ...
Date:		2005-02-11 07:48:01
From:		puddnhead

Rating: This was great at first, five years ago, but now is so out of date (there are new editions of nearly every book in this collection) that I don't find it much use anymore. Will this ever be updated? How heard could it be to change the contents of a CD to different PDF files???

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Great, but ..., February 11 2005
Submitted by Anonymous Reader [Respond | View]

No, it will never be updated. We published the CD Bookshelves as a transitional product while we were launching Safari Books Online (safari.oreilly.com). That is now the way to get our online content.

And while I know it was very convenient to get a set of books on CD, and the product line was quite successful, we had an awful lot of cloning going on, with duplicate copies sold on eBay and other sites, as well as posted on public internet servers. While we're not big on copy protection, and recognize that "piracy" can have beneficial effects on some products (see my essay, Piracy is Progressive Taxation), we believe that Safari offers a better blend of convenience for the user and revenue-generation for our authors.