I gotta wonder what their mindset was doing that? We’re they particularly struggling prior to switching to subscription-only? Had other publishers begun to do something similar? Data collection scheme?
I see O'Reilly Learning as a mirror image of what Spotify did for music and Netflix did for TV shows.
Some people assume it's just books, but they have live content, video courses, etc too.
It's the best purchase I make for my professional life every year. If they ever offered a lifetime tier, I'd likely buy it.
In the past few years, I've browsed thousands of technical books on the site; but when it comes to paper technical books in the same time period, I've probably bought maybe just ~25. Access is king.
Some people assume it's just books, but they have live content, video courses, etc too.
It's the best purchase I make for my professional life every year. If they ever offered a lifetime tier, I'd likely buy it.
In the past few years, I've browsed thousands of technical books on the site; but when it comes to paper technical books in the same time period, I've probably bought maybe just ~25. Access is king.