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O'Reilly offers pre-publication access to manuscripts

O'Reilly has introduced a new service called "Rough Cuts" that gives pre-publication access to books as they are being written.

It's an opportunity for early adopters to use the material and offer feedback to the author and editor.

The books are priced reasonably for online access, with an option to purchase the print version when it is released.

Of the initial four titles, "Ajax Hacks: Rough Cuts Version" is probably the most interesting to Java programmers. The other titles released at this time are "Flickr Hacks", "Ruby Cookbook", "Ruby on Rails: Up and Running".

Check out the new service at: O'Reilly Rough Cuts.

(Disclosure: O'Reilly manages java.net, but I'm not financially associated with them.)

Comments

• This does not come as a suprise to me, having found free downloadable draft pdf files of O'Reily's 'Killer Game Programming' at the following link: http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/index.html. I really like the idea of 'opening up' drafts for a book as it gives potential customers the opertunity to check on the quality of the book before they buy it.

  Helping the author write the book is even better, as it is more assumable that books written that way are without errors and are not to vague for the intended audience.

  Posted by: ttsgosadow on January 25, 2006 at 05:42 AM

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