After a couple of months of work and refinement, we’re finally able to launch our PDF guides. We’ve been selling PDF documents for a couple years now, but not in a concerted way. That’s changed, and we’ve got a fine lineup of these coming through the rest of the year. I’ve read two of the four new ones listed below in-depth, and reviewed the others, and I’ll recommend them heartily. I finished the one about SEO last night and learned several valuable things even though SEO is a topic I’m pretty familiar with. Following is what the blurb on oreilly.com says:

Good. Fast. Cheap. O’Reilly Launches PDF Guides–Finally, you get all three with PDF guides on cutting edge topics from O’Reilly. You can search, cut and paste code, and share our PDFs. And they’re portable.

New PDF titles include:

• Web Services on Rails
• Build Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP
• Atlas UpdatePanel Control
• Search Engine Optimization

Visit pdfs.oreilly.com for a complete list of PDF publications from O’Reilly Media.

As many of you are aware, you can now buy two books and get the third free
when you purchase direct through oreilly.com. I want to thank everyone who
has responded to this offer and let you know that this is just the beginning
of many value-added inducements we’re developing that will give you a reason
to spend your hard-earned money directly with us. At the same time, it prompted
me to think of all the inducements we already have, and I want to make sure
you’re aware of them, too.

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–Allen