A scene from the tech-book publishing experience.

Also in this timeframe, my books' 
_<A HREF="https://www.oreilly.com/">publisher_</A> started dropping the 
ball on sales support.  This included promotion of infringing titles 
and competing products, runs on free and DRM-free ebooks, 
months-long inventory outages, uncollected translation revenues, 
and more.  The publisher-follies page in _<I>Teaching Python_</I>'s 2015 
_<A HREF="https://learning-python.com/python-activities-history.html#2015">coverage_</A>
dishes all the sordid details.

Many of these issues were corrected over time, but some fell on deaf ears, 
and at least one was addressed by sending me more author hats in lieu of 
resolution or compensation.  Moreover, the company's focus shift from books
to online-media subscriptions, corporate training budgets, 
and customer-info/access sales may be permanent.  Content creators 
and consumers should both care.

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_<I>2024 update_</I>: the publisher-follies page was eventually dropped because
it grew dated and moot.  This publisher is a different company today
and hardly accountable for the now-distant past.  Although it's now almost
impossible to find anything about books at its customer-facing website, 
it still quietly produces them in ebook, online, and print forms, 
the latter of which is sold on 
_<A HREF="https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-Powerful-Object-Oriented-Programming-dp-1098171306/dp/1098171306">Amazon_</A>.

Per the updated sidebar in _<I>Teaching Python_</I>'s 
_<A HREF="https://learning-python.com/python-activities-history.html#2015">2015_</A>, 
AI is a new concern for authors, though this publisher's AI products may be 
fairer to content producers than some, and the world will likely grow tired 
of the domain's exaggerated claims soon.