Date: 9 May 1996 14:40:17 GMT From: gruner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Armin Gruner) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New 4.4BSD book - group buy Message-ID: <4mt04h$18n@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960508090203.26270C-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
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Who is interested in a group order inside GERMANY? I would offer to organize it. Regards, Armin <ftp-admin@leo.org> ____ Armin Gruner, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen \ / http://www.leo.org/~gruner/ \/ Nur wer sich aendert, bleibt sich treu - Wolf Biermann Chuck Robey (chuckr@Glue.umd.edu) wrote: : OK, this is about the recently released Addison Wesley book, The Design : and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, by McKusick, Bostic : Karels, and Quarterman. : : I called Readme.doc, and they said they would be happy to offer a : discount, and yes, they would let the agregate of however many FreeBSDers : order count against one big discount pool. They said that they'd be : happy to arrange shipping, tho they would charge $3/per person shipping. : : What they want is me to get a list of folks together who want to buy it, : so that they can estimate the cost. The book runs (full price) $48.37, : and Readme.Doc's discount is: : : 1-5 books 20 percent off : 6-20 books 23 percent off : 21-50 books 25 percent off : : I didn't ask about any more, but it keeps on in like fashion. They said : that they DO handle European shipping, but it's very expensive on a : book-by book basis. They suggested that maybe someone in Europe could : get all the books (shrinking the shipping costs) and then re-ship there, : to cut the costs. I'm in Maryland, so I can't do that, someone in Europe : is going to have to volunteer that. : : If you want the book, send me Email about it. Make sure you have a good : email return address. Don't send me money, don't send anything like : that, I'm just supposed to get names/numbers. I will send back payment : instructions when I think I have got everyone (1-2 weeks probably). For : folks inthe US, this probably means you'll end up calling Readme.Doc : direct, giving them a credit card number, and referencing the FreeBSD : group-buy. I'm just supposed to get names so they can figure a discount : to offer. : : I'll repost when I get more info, when I get an idea how many folks want : to do this. I have several folks already mailing me, even before I knew : Readme.Doc would do this. For your info, I've been using Readme.Doc for : some time now, because they discount Unix books (like the 4.4BSD manuals : they sold me, and various other O'Reilly books I didn't have to pay full : price for). I have never had anything but good service from them. : : ========================================================================== : Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 : : Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, : Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, : Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, : One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game : In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. : One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, : One Account to make them all and in the network bind them. : :
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