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O'Reilly rough cuts

O'Reilly's new rough cuts service gives you access to books as they are being written. I especially like the fact that they "welcome feedback on both the book's content and the service itself." It's definitely a good idea to get the readers into the development process. Kinda reminds me of the SourceBeat concept. Via Joho the Blog.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 02:33PM Jan 23, 2006

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Comments:

It's definitely a good idea, it reminds me (and presumably Dave Thomas, more of the Pragrmatic Programmers' Beta Books. I bought in to the Agile Web Development With Rails beta program and was extremely pleased by the process, hopefully O'Reilly can implement the idea just as well.

Posted by Mark Imbriaco on January 23, 2006 at 11:33 PM EST #

That's just a few linkbacks ;)

Posted by 202.37.75.101 on January 24, 2006 at 06:27 PM EST #

although basically hopeful of the company's 'rough cuts' venture, i am insulted by the fact that o'reilly's safari service offers important material to its regular subscribers only if they pay extra for it. o'reilly's material on ajax is a good example: all of the introductory coverage is available only as pricey 'rough cuts'. as for the 'opportunity' which o'reilly offers to its customers to make contributions/corrections to its 'rough cuts', there comes to mind microsoft, the old ibm, and other studies in arrogance, which in effect they charge people to do their alpha/beta work.

Posted by tom arnall on March 01, 2006 at 08:30 PM EST #