Did O’Reilly start selling ebooks again? Directly? Several years ago it stopped doing that and pushed the Safari or O’Reilly subscription as the only way to read its catalog of books. I provided feedback at that time, but the policies didn’t change. But I have seen some O’Reilly books in Humble Bundle sales once in a while.
There was also a time when O’Reilly and Apress would have a “deal of the day” every single day, selling ebooks at a much lower price than retail..all DRM free. I haven’t seen those in years.
https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210313783/programming-rust...
Bad news is that the O'Reilly site's page for the book is now (as of around start of 2023) sending people to a subscription, though:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...
They used to send people to Amazon or Ebooks.com first:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221128145404/https://www.oreil...
Longer term, I don't know whether they intend to keep Ebooks.com and Amazon as options at all, for those who can find the options.
Imagine how quickly we could get rid of all DRM if everybody simply stopped buying DRM! The world would be so much better! To me it feels like a moral obligation to not support any kind of DRM. Luckily there are plenty of authors and distributors who support DRMfree books, games, audio. Let's make the world a better place, for ourselves and for the next generations, by simply refusing DRM!
If a title is only legally available with DRM, I'll just do without, not pirate.
When the book is available non-DRM, such as from ebooks.com, I've paid a hefty premium over the Kindle DRM price.
Thanks to O'Reilly for being clueful enough to sell non-DRM versions.
If the DRM situation gets even worse, I don't know what I'll do. I'd like the DRM situation to get better, not worse.