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October 1, 2015

Is the term “tease” still in fashion?

Filed under: Advertising,Books — Patrick Durusau @ 4:32 pm

I ask if “tease” is still in fashion (or its more sexist equivalent) because I keep running across partial O’Reilly publications that are touted as “free,” but are in reality, just extended ads for forthcoming books.

A case in point is “Transforms in CSS” which isn’t really a book but an excerpt from the forth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide.

Forty page book?

Social media with light up with posts and reposts about this “free” title.

Save your time and disk space. If anything, get a preview copy of the forth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide when it is available.

Make no mistake, I like O’Reilly publications and I am presently reading what I suspect is the best O’Reilly title in a number of years, XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley.

O’Reilly shouldn’t waste bandwidth with disconnected excerpts for its titles.

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