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Grumble, grumble. This (at least O'Reilly and Skillsoft) used to be included with the professional membership. And did I ever tell you kids that Hershey Bars c

• Jtsummers 3y ago
  13 years or so ago they gave access to O'Reilly at something like half off, cost around $150-200 IIRC. And that was just O'Reilly. Then that went away. Then they gave free access to a limited set of what O'Reilly offers (my account through my employer has many more books than what they were offering under the previous service). Now they charge $75 for more than they used to give access to. Times change. O'Reilly (and others) are not owned by ACM, they can't control it they can only influence the contract they get but are still stuck with whatever those orgs agree to. In the same time period they've massively opened up their digital library so now I can share out links to people without them needing access themselves, and content I used to have to pay to access (on top of my membership) is just part of it. That's what they can control, and they've been moving in the right direction there. I have few complaints.