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