Comments on: O’Reilly: Give your authors Safari access!

By: m0j0

m0j0 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:26:44 +0000

I still have an account. My account was also terminated, but was reinstated after no small amount of running in circles between some (outsourced?) customer service outfit and ORA proper, and Safari, which seems to act as yet a third independent organization. I tweeted you just now about who to tweet to get help, but for anyone else stumbling across this, give a tweet to @oreillymedia and @safaribooks

By: An Author

An Author — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:51:48 +0000

This post is a bit stale, but here in 2010 it appears that there is a time limit on the free account. It’s been two years since I finished my last book for O’Reilly, and my account was unceremoniously terminated a week ago. I’m working on a Pearson book now, so perhaps they’ll hook me up again. It just seems odd that I’ve got scads of books up there and I have to go through an editor on an active project to get the account reinstated. (The customer service at Safari told me to talk to my editor.) Do you still have an account?

By: Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:27:29 +0000

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Thanks for this post. I’m very glad you updated with Mary’s new information. I’d hate to have bad feelings about wanting an account there so badly

By: Baron

Baron — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:05:21 +0000

Thanks Brian. I got an email from them about it. Just for the record, I donâ€™t think this was intentional that they didnâ€™t give us Safari accounts â€” I think it was just a matter of something falling through the cracks and not being noticed.

By: Mary Treseler

Mary Treseler — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:23:46 +0000

I am a member of the editorial group here at O’Reilly and we still offer free Safari accounts to all authors. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding betweeen the author and his editor? I know we have had the experience of accounts expiring and we in editorial have had the subscription renewed.

Feel free to contact me if I can help in any way or if the noted author of the MySQL book needs help.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Mary Treseler