O'Reilly Books Digitally Altered in Microsoft Ad
Jan 27

O'Reilly Books Digitally Altered in Microsoft Ad

Afraid to tell people what books their developers are really reading?: O’Reilly finds a magazine ad for Microsoft showing a developer sitting at his desk. Apparently the books sitting on the developers desk have been altered to downplay O’Reilly’s domninance of tech publishing. There’s a picture.

The ad, with the caption, “Find tools and guidance to defend your network at microsoft.com/security/IT” features a developer at his desk. On the desk is a shelf full of books. Leaving aside the fact that most of them aren’t security books, what caught our attention was that the three books on the end were O’Reilly books, with the cover of the book visible on the end photoshopped to take the animal off the cover and to modify the title on the spine.

by Deane   January 27, 2006 3:24 PM   |
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Comments

by Sauron,   January 27, 2006 9:31 PM  

Umm... bad link?

by Deane,   January 27, 2006 9:34 PM  

It works for me as of 9:35 p.m. CST.

by Sauron,   January 27, 2006 9:37 PM  

Or not anymore... I'm so confused!

by Sauron,   January 27, 2006 9:41 PM  

Okay, it didn't work before (gave me some site that tracks bad links or something. I didn't stay long enough to find out), but now it does work. Did you fix something or was something going weird on my end?

by Deane,   January 27, 2006 9:58 PM  

I bet the MyBlogLog script hosed you up somehow. Thanks for letting me know -- the jury is still out on that service.

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