I think more significantly they want to push people to use safari because they want to get on board with the recurring payments dark pattern.

For a while O'Reilly had me trained to only buy deeply discounted downloads because I knew there would be a sale if I waited; many video game creators are concerned about that trend too.

O'Reilly is not the company it was 20 years ago. The books are not as consistently good as they used to be and management is in chaos.