Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:05:03 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" <root@pukruppa.de>, "Bill Schoolcraft" <bill@wiliweld.com>, "Eric Colburn" <ecolburn@seeitfirst.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD Message-ID: <015401c0b296$0c5f8900$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <002a01c0b291$bdd922e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> Hey, that is BS. There's ways to get promo copies of books, > and I was just down at Fry's the other day and I saw a whole stack of > O'Reilly books of various titles (Firewalling was one) in the clearance > rack for $14.95 per book. Besides that, don't you have a library? Heaps of libraries but the only ones that have any O'Reilly books are the universities, and those copies are for reference only. The problem with anything originating in yankeeland is that the exchange rate of 48c in the $USD more than doubles the local price, then there is the margin expected by local bookshops to contend with. I'm getting some from a discount place in the US (probably end up costing about $A60 each). We did contact the promo department at O'Reilly some months back but haven't heard from them yet. > Checking the local county library here I see they have 1 copy of "FreeBSD > for dummies" and many of the O'Reilly titles. You can suggest that your > local library purchase some titles and it sure wouldn't hurt to help them > out by volunteering some time. > Far too specialized for local authority libraries .... Apana is gradually acquiring O'Reilly books / CDs but because of the cost its a slow job. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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