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From: davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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Subject: Re: Summary of responses regarding Jim Joyces Unix Bookstore
Keywords: books, unix, mail order
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Date: 23 Jul 90 14:28:09 GMT
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In article <12565@netcom.UUCP>, ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

|> There's another, more legitimate difference.  B. Dalton employees are
|> not long on computer expertise (though they no longer think that Unix
|> is a programming language!), and can't give you much help on selecting
|> books.  Specialized mail order firms often work very hard in that
|> department.  

  I have to agree. I've called Jim Joyce on the phone and asked for
title suggestions (not recently) and he gave me useful titles in both
cases. Not necessarily the *best* titles, but not a waste of money. None
of my local bookstores seem to do that, even at schools.