O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication
Tim O'Reilly once said "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy". I discovered and purchased almost every Rosenfeld Media book from OReilly.After O'Reilly moved to DRM-free books, their 2009 sales went up by 104% http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up...In other interviews, he seemed confident that DRM wasn't worth it
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0411/focus-tim-oreilly-me...Perhaps some part of the equation has changed since then. I'm looking forward a deeper analysis of the business reasons for this.I'm also interested to hear what more authors think - I wonder how many agree with Martin Kleppmann (Designing Data Intensive Applications) https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/880336943980085248This independence day weekend there were a lot of sales, so I purchased:* "Programming Clojure, Third Edition" from pragprog (30% off sale)* The entire collection of "Enthusiast's Guide to ..."  from rockynook (each for $10)* "The Quick Python Book 3e", "Serverless Architectures on AWS", "Event Streams in Action", "Get Programming with Haskell" from Manning (50% off)These sales are the only way I can afford the volume I read. Some of that money would have gone to OReilly authors, but they deleted my full cart with $100 worth of stuff before I could purchase!EDIT: OReilly catalog seemed large & redundant with publishers (packt) offering the same materials on their sites. Some like Wiley / MKP only offered very few items from their catalogs. Others like Rosenfeld / rockynook / no starch now provide DRM free options directly from their sites. I'm hoping at least OReilly reconsiders selling their Animal books again.