Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <kstewart@urx.com>, Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, Eric Colburn <ecolburn@seeitfirst.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103221756150.318-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <015401c0b296$0c5f8900$8300a8c0@apana.org.au>
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I am very happy to have mailing lists where stupid or intelligent questions can be asked and silly discussions may be lead. Uli. On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Doug Young wrote: > > 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. > > ################################################### # # # www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de # # # ################################################### To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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