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I get the O’Reilly subscription through the ACM. It’s an extra $75 a year after a regular ACM membership. A lot less than $500/year.

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For a while, the O'Reilly subscription was included in the $99/yr ACM membership. Then they stopped offering O'Reilly for a bit. Then they brought it back as part of the $75 skills add-on.

I feel like this is a little known secret (discount via ACM) that more folks should know about. Hopefully this post helps spread the word.

For those curious about the ACM membership: https://www.acm.org/membership/membership-options

Is this ACM membership worth it?

If your paying $500 for an O’Reilly subscription, then the $99 membership plus $75 add-on for O'Reilly would seem to make it so even if you don't use any of the other facilities:

> unlimited access to ACM's collection of thousands of online books, video courses, interactive sandboxes, practice labs, and AI-enabled tools from O'Reilly and Skillsoft Percipio

> ACM is pleased to share an important milestone for the computing field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Doesn’t help for O'Reilly content.

(Also, if you can afford the subscription money it makes sense to reward, not punish, ACM for making its own material open-access.)

> I get the O’Reilly subscription through the ACM.

I get it through my library:

* https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEDB00...

Every year O'Reilly has a cybermonday disccount of 40%. https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/2025-cyber-sale.html...

One year, many years ago, they had an Cyber Monday offer for $299 indefinitely. I took it.

Reading this and thinking of my consumption I start wondering if it is still worth it

I don’t think you get the same level of access though? I tried an O’Reilly subscription directly then went the ACM route and remember being disappointed that it was a more limited subscription.

Does anyone know if Springer has any subscription discounts, access via library, etc? ACM does not include Springer.

I do this too. It was a easy sell to my department

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