Your Ukraine download site is clearly illegal, and it would certainly be best to remove the link.

Having said that, I must admit that I did download the full shebang a number of years ago. And, later, I did buy about a dozen of those books in the collection that I found useful, because a dead-tree volume is very useful and practical when you are using the book very commonly. At least, I knew before buying it about the book content, and I knew it was going to be useful to me.

I do not know about O'Reilly's official position on the subject, but I know for a fact that many publishing houses specialized in highly technical content now prefer to give access to free PDF or HTML versions of their publications (either officially by releasing publicly the content, or less clearly, by selling CD's that they know will be copied), because they've found that giving free access to electronic versions of their best publications actually enhances sales of paper versions of the same. Now, of course, each case is specific.

In reply to Re: Where can I download copies of free, legal O'Reilly books in HTML form? by Laurent_R
in thread Where can I download copies of free, legal O'Reilly books in HTML form? by bulrush

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