Inspirational Technology

Manning Publishing eBooks

I just noticed that Manning is publishing their technical books in PDF format. It looks like the book is typically 50% off the cover price of the print edition. You buy them directly from the publisher. Even better, if you then decide to buy the print edition later they apply the purchase price of the eBook to the price of the printed edition.

I'm not positive, but it also looks like the books don't have any DRM to screw things up. If that's the case, this is another great step forward for eBooks in the technical field. Of course they have a license agreement that goes with the books, but it's basically what you'd expect. I'm tempted to pick up a copy of AspectJ in Action to try this out. If there's DRM I'll be pissed.