O'Reilly Media's Library Services Bourght Down By Wildfires In California

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Caught some eBook peeples on the #Fediverse chatting about it, but somehow missed large-ish coverage of it. Might be because ive been mentally a little disconnected from the web a bit for a week or so. It sounds as if Library’s lost access to their eBooks at this time.

  • Why does O’Reilley Media not have an offsite failover for their ebook services?
  • Is this a facet of centralization, DRM or both? Im not really familiar with O’Reilley’s direct offerings, just the PDFs and ePubs Ive acquired from Humble Bundle or through their Open Ebooks program.
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That’s very web 1.0. :pfft:

I’m in the same boat. It seems silly for fires of this magnitude to affect a digital object…

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That sounds facetious, but I’m serious. I have a feeling if California fell into the ocean, a lot of people would be aware of how much internet we store/route here.

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Further conversations in the Fediverse seem to imply O’Reilley is pretty staunchly pro DRM when it comes to libraries. Moreso than they have been with regular consumer purchases.

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There’s a gif from Half-baked where someone is being boo’d and in would use it to express myself in this scenario.