Publishing 2.0?
July 10th, 2006
Today I had the good fortune to shoot the breeze with Mike Loukides at O’Reilly. He’s working on a new model at O’Reilly, doing less expensive, smaller, and more up-to-date PDF publishing. I think this is an excellent idea. The 37signals guys have certainly done well with their PDF publishing, and you simply can’t argue about the cost reduction. Similar to how with web 2.0 someone can quickly and cheaply produce a new thing, reducing the risk of the effort, a publishing 2.0 model likewise can harness the, um, long tail (man, I feel dirty just saying it).
So, if you’ve got the price of a pair of lattes, and the need for some information you probably won’t find in a dead-tree book, surf on over to O’Reilly’s new PDF library and take a gander.
Of course, I still print stuff out so I can read it while lounging where-ever I care to lounge.