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by hopler 2655 days ago
Almost nobody buys books anymore.
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> Almost nobody buys books anymore.

Can you use a search engine before posting nonsubstantive, dismissive comments?

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b...

I am not sure the total count of how many books O'Reilly published last year, but they have not exactly slowed down in releasing new titles: http://shop.oreilly.com/

In SF, maybe. But most developers in the world live outside of SV (for example, there are on the order of 1M C# developers worldwide). They don't write blogs, or even read them.
Uh...

Developer outside of SF (outside of USA, in fact) here. I read blogs, have written them on occasion. Have worked with many developers in many non-SV locales. None of them read programming books, most of them read blogs.