ACM Drops Safari for Members

In an earlier email, ACM pointed out that O’Reilly was unwilling to continue providing the service to ACM members. Of course I don’t know the details about why, but this title (ACM drops Safari for Members) might be unfair.

I suspect a lot of people recently learnt that the ACM digital library included this benefit, and O’Reilly were unhappy not taking full payment from these users.

$399 sounds excessive. How much are people paying nowadays in practice?

I still have my 15 years year old legacy rate, just a bit over $100. Mutually a good deal I'd say. I use it very little, sometimes I completely forget about it for many months, so a good deal for them. But when I need to access some new topic that seem to have no good hits on the free (as in beer) internet I can acess Safari quickly. In the past there was a limit about how many books I can access at my rate. Seems that it's no longer there? Anyway, I have never really hit it, just needed to be cautious not to browse in too many books at once.

I got early heads up for this. Did a back-of-envelope calculations to compare the price of books I'm reading at O'Reilly and the USD399 price.

It turned out all the books I'm currently reading at O'Reilly for real (i.e.: I'm making meaningful progress) cost less than USD399, certainly less than USD399 per year.

Title is very misleading. More like "O'Reilly's Safari drops ACM subscribers".

And so goes my ACM membership.

I thought this was the browser first and was very confused.

It does suck that o’reilly didn’t make it possible to keep your account history, etc given I doubt ACM was running a complete copy of the platform themselves.