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The price from O'Reilly is 50/month or 500/year.

I think there is a lot of content there, but I'm also finding it hard to stomach their pricing. $100/year was a no brainer (or whatever the membership fee for ACM was). I would probably do $200 or maybe even $300/ year.

But $500!! Maybe I'll try talking my employer into paying for it.



I'd wager that employers/corporates are precisely their target market with this sort of pricing.


Similar to conferences - $2500 plus travel means only a few successful consultants will go on their own money.


I personally think that is an intended consequence. In their minds, it keeps out the riff-raff.


For corporate customers it usually costs significantly less. Few years ago I worked in a very big company, and as I remember, O'Reilly subscription cost per person was < $50


What I do to beet the $500/year pricing is to buy 1 month, then immediately cancel (so it doesn't auto-renew). I then have 30 days to read through whatever I find interesting. Then I get another $50 1/month subscription whenever I need to find something new, which maybe happens a couple times a year.


> I would probably do $200

They used to run specials for "half off" (when they were charging $400), and I felt like I was getting value for my money then. But yeah, any more than that, it's just not worth it, unfortunately.




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