Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:2588 sci.math:12125 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!usc!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!bunyip!lance!surf!kowande!scottd From: scottd@kowande.bu.oz.au (David Scott) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,sci.math Subject: Re: Expensive books (was: expensive TeX book) Message-ID: <1990Aug24.142253@kowande.bu.oz.au> Date: 24 Aug 90 04:22:53 GMT References: <8164@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@surf.sics.bu.oz Reply-To: scottd@kowande.bu.oz.au (David Scott) Organization: SICS, Bond University, Australia. Lines: 36 In article , wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes: |> |> I would be very interested to hear of any large retailer of technical books |> in the US, (or the UK or Europe), that is willing to cater directly to |> private individual customers in Australia. I have got rather too many |> scars from the local sharks and crocodiles. I think it's time to join you |> wimps. |> Hi Bill, Blackwell's in Oxford and Heffer's of Cambridge in the UK both have substantial mail-order business for all academic and general books. I have dealt with Heffer's for many years. Prices are good, airmail takes a couple of weeks if you are willing to pay for it. The Seminary C-oop in Chicago offered to send books to Australia too on request when I was in drooling at their range and prices a couple of years ago. Like you, I laughed at what was supposed to be an outrageous book price. My most scarring experience so far is about A$100 for Maindonald's Statistical Computation a few years back. David Scott -- David Scott: School of Information and Computing Sciences, Bond University, Queensland 4229, Australia email: scottd@kowande.bu.oz.au Phone: +61 75 953322 Fax: +61 75 953320