I've been wondering how much growth Lynda.com could sustain given the amount of free instruction available on the internet. I used to subscribe but found much of Lynda.com too cumbersome and slow. If I simply search for a topic I can find it for free.

Not only is the equivalent free in many places, but they have a LOT of pay competitors that charge far less and constantly have sales, unlike Lynda. However, I know a lot of companies have corporate accounts with them.

LinkedIn has a lot of money, but is poorly run. Could it be that they are going to fold the site's content into pay LinkedIn accounts?

Seems like a risky buy, unless they know something I don't.

on tacking it onto their job section - to encourage companies to post ads for jobs including soft tech skills and then tagging those ads with the video tutorials. Interesting concept, but at $25 a month (or whatever they are now charging job seekers), there just isn't enough depth and breadth to LinkedIn posted jobs to justify that expense, IMO. Not when there are free options and sites like indeed.com that aggregate from across the web.