Why give all the control to Amazon? O’Reilly is selling e-books from their own web site that are bundled to include three different formats together in one package (epub, PDF, and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket). The sales page includes a green-colored tease: “Save a Tree – Go Digital.” The program launches with “30 popular” O’Reilly titles. They are also making available a few titles–Devices of the Soul; Wikipedia Reader’s Guide: The Missing Manual; and Facebook: The Missing Manual–directly through Amazon in Kindle format. The O’Reilly e-price for two of those books is well above Amazon’s standard ceiling of $9.99 for Kindle editions, […]
