Or for $20/month (10 books/month) or $40/month (unlimited books/month) you could get a safari.oreilly.com account with access to every O'Reilly book published (and more).
Argh, but they won't let me buy them because their website is so poorly programmed. Several attempts to checkout just returned to the "enter credit card info" page without an error. Switched to chrome was able to check out only to get "we were unable to save your information, please try again later"... was my credit card charged? who knows.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 46.9 ms ] threadP.S. They have this "sale" once a month and the iPhone version of these books is also half the price.
(O'Reilly also provides instructions on how to get to the actual "book" out of the iPhone app:
http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp Check "Extracting the EPUB pearl.")
http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-...
http://twitter.com/timoreilly
He happens to link to stuff that interests me, so I'm happy following him, and there's the bonus of a cheap read every now and again.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday
P.S. Sometimes it appears they don't cut off right at midnight. Weekends would be one example of this, but also on weekdays.
I've yet to see one of their "heavy hitter" titles offered, though. But I haven't been following the feed regularly.
I keep getting suckered with these $9.99 deals. What are you doing to me, O'Reilly?!
I think I'll pass.
So irritating.