{"id":315,"date":"2007-05-04T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/05\/04\/oreilly-rough-cuts\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:36:30","slug":"oreilly-rough-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/05\/04\/oreilly-rough-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Rough Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/images\/roughcuts\/rc_logo.gif\" align=\"left\" \/>In January 2006 O&#8217;Reilly debuted their &#8220;Rough Cuts&#8221; program. Here&#8217;s how they describe it:<br \/>\n&#8220;When you buy a book on the Rough Cuts service, you get access to an evolving manuscript. You can read it online, download as a PDF, or print. Once you&#8217;ve purchased a Rough Cuts title, you have a chance to shape the final product &#8211; you can send suggestions, bug fixes, and comments directly to the author and editors.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You have your choice in the Rough Cuts program of purchasing just online access, just the print book when it releases, or the best of both worlds &#8211; online access immediately and the print book later.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is a great model for infotech books, which often suffer from the speed differential between paper-bound publishing and techno change.<br \/>\nOf particular interest is the option to comment on the book as it is being written, a sort of collaboration between author and reader that might seem distasteful to literary traditionalists but is eminently useful in the case of technology books. How would a similar model work in the humanities, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2006 O&#8217;Reilly debuted their &#8220;Rough Cuts&#8221; program. Here&#8217;s how they describe it: &#8220;When you buy a book on the Rough Cuts service, you get access to an evolving manuscript. You can read it online, download as a PDF, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/05\/04\/oreilly-rough-cuts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}