On 2023-04-30 11:24, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2023-04-30 11:19, sciguy via talk wrote:
Hi folks
I hadn't logged on to Oreilly.com in several years, and today I had a
reason to do so. I had been a frequent purchaser of Oreilly books at
one time, and recently I had become interested in their Raspberry Pi
Cookbook, and decided to used my old login to their site and see if it
was offered there. The search only led me to a 404, and that it
wouldn't show me anything unless I paid a subscription fee. WTF?
I recall I had had a number of PDF bookmarks to previous purchases of
other titles of their books. All gone. Sorry if I was out of the loop.
I was hoping to just order the book; preferably a PDF. Is Amazon in
control of everything now?
I have also bought a lot of their books. They are apparently still
there, but you can't get to them from their home page. You can find
them, if you search on a title.
I am having very little luck poking around. And to correct what I said
earlier, searching specific titles leads me to a "403" error
(Forbidden), not a 404 as I had said. I searched on Programming Perl,
which I have the second and fourth editions, and got a "403" when I
clicked on the title. The message below reads: "Your free O’Reilly trial
has ended, making this content unavailable to view. For unlimited access
to all O’Reilly has to offer, purchase a membership here." I also notice
that on the titles I see, there are no "purchase" links, just "read"
links. It sounds like for the $50 or so monthly fee, you can read
anything you like. Still not sold on the idea, but clearly they have
changed their marketing model.
Paul
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