Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:03:27 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, <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: <006201c0b2bf$b895da20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <015401c0b296$0c5f8900$8300a8c0@apana.org.au>
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Ah, yes, the wonderful exchange rate that is killing our exports. Sigh. Anyway, I can't speak for O'Reilly but if you send me any group purchase contacts, espically universities, I'll see that they are forwarded to the appropriate folks at AW. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young >Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:05 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; kstewart@urx.com >Cc: Kruppa, Peter Ulrich; Bill Schoolcraft; Eric Colburn; >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD > > >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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