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I used to buy plenty of O'Reilly books in paper and get the $5 matching e-books. I wanted epubs and PDFs (for markup). I must have at least a hundred. I also bought many early release e-books. I too have virtually stopped buying them since this change. I've switched to Manning; they almost always have 40% or 50% off coupons available and so for about $25 I can get early access e-books with a paper book on publication, and the quality of the content is excellent. Packt have much more variable quality but they too have frequent bargain sales (like $5 on every e-book in the week before Christmas; I snagged quite a few). I'll be way more selective now before buying any O'Reilly title.
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