Is Tim O’Reilly about to shake up the publishing industry?  Today he announced that you can now  Buy O’Reilly Books by the Chapter!  In the computer book industry this is a really great idea.  For only $3.99 you get to download one chapter in PDF format, complete with a table of contents and index.   I spend a lot of money on computer books.  Sometimes when I buy a book, I am not interested in the 6 “newbie” chapters or introductory content, but instead I buy the book for the advanced chapters or reference.  Many times I will not buy the book because only one chapter looks to be relevant or useful to me.  I fully expect that I will be purchasing single chapters in the near future.  Thanks Tim!

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