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O’Reilly Learning platform no longer as a benefit of your ACM membership

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Re: O’Reilly Learning platform no longer as a benefit of your ACM membership

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Post by softveda »

AnonHP wrote: post #10

Totally on a tangent here (and I realize that this may rub some people the wrong way): Maybe just ditch O’Reilly learning altogether? The publisher stopped selling ebooks online several years ago and left people with the only option of subscribing to the online service (it does participate in the discounted Humble Bundle sales once in a while). Now these subscription prices are way higher than before. Maybe this is w…

I am a happy customer of O'Reilly Learning. I do not even earn US level salary, but for a few hundred dollars annually I get access to a massive collection of books, training videos, live training, interactive coding and much more. In my country (Australia) self education is tax deductible as well. I consider this a small investment for my career.

Re: O’Reilly Learning platform no longer as a benefit of your ACM membership

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Post by tssva »

yftsui wrote: post #18
tssva wrote: post #3

Check with your local library. Many public libraries provide free access to O'Reilly for card holders.

My local library Safaribooks has very limited selections compared with a paid O’Reilly subscription, the most obvious one is there is no video content.

There are varying levels of access libraries can pay for. You may want to make a suggestion to your library to up their subscription plan.

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Post by picoico »

I've cancelled Netflix and now I'm cancelling O'Reilly. The excuse they're giving is that they need to raise prices to compensate content creators. I'm all good with the latter part, but as far as I'm concerned, that's their headache not mine. Is your business not viable? You can't grow, so you take it out on your customers? 500+/yr is not worth the occasional browsing/reference I do.

Geez, I mean the typical O'Reilly publication is quite expensive as it is, and I'm finding self-published books are typically more useful anyway. I wonder how much of the cost actually goes to the content creator, and how much to the publisher for the honor of having O'Reilly stamped on the front cover...

Re: O’Reilly Learning platform no longer as a benefit of your ACM membership

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Post by uticus »

The benefit for me has been the ability to skim books. I'd love to learn there was an alternative way to skim or form an opinion about a book, before buying.

Normally I would treat buying nonfiction as something worthwhile. But buying a book related to software is often a great way to purchase something irrelevant six months later. O'Reilly enables me to check out new stuff, form opinions about the keepers, and read about the latest stuff that I know will be replaced very soon but is in hot demand right now.

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