[sethvargo]

Great question. As an O'Reilly author myself, I can tell you that we have no control over the animal selected. There's a fun animal selection process, but the publisher's decide.

Disclaimer - I work for Google and worked on this book.

[dielectrikboog]

Hey, at least you didn’t get Cthulhu on the cover, like Andrew Lombardi’s WebSocket.

[raesene2]

Or Robert Seacord’s Effective C

[xvector]

Wait, is that a bad thing?

[l9i]

Confirmed. I was hoping for the platypus but it turns out it was already taken anyway.

You can check out the whole O'Reilly menagerie at https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp.

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)

[pkaye]

Just curious deals like this work. Does Google pay O'Reilly for the editing and typography or does O'Reilly make money by selling the book themselves.

[zenlot]

O'Reilly provides their editorial capabilities. Google provides content. Neither Google, nor O'Reilly benefits from the book directly. Marketing. Future gains for both.

[sethvargo]

I don't think I can talk about that, sorry.