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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
by mymllnthaccount 5y ago
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.
- srazzaque 5y agoI'd wager that employers/corporates are precisely their target market with this sort of pricing.
- alexott 5y agoFor 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
- JJMcJ 5y agoSimilar to conferences - $2500 plus travel means only a few successful consultants will go on their own money.
- voakbasda 5y agoI personally think that is an intended consequence. In their minds, it keeps out the riff-raff.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> 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.
- derekp7 5y agoWhat 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.