Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!spence From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Pricing info on Foley, van Dam, etc. 2nd Edition Keywords: Foley + Van Dam + Feiner + Hughes + Scotland = Cheap! Message-ID: <14820@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 2 Oct 90 22:13:22 GMT References: <1548@madnix.UUCP> <927@ap542.uucp> <2203@charon.cwi.nl> <477@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 42 In article <477@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ajcd@cs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) writes: > >In article , lambert@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au >(Tim Lambert) writes: >> To add one more data point to the worldwide price of Foley, van Dam, >> Feiner and Hughes: The price here in Australia is AUS$68.50 (which is >> roughly US$56). >This is strange---book prices in Britain are not usually cheap, but I got a >copy of Foley, Van Dam, Feiner & Hughes from my local bookshop for #29.95 >(pounds sterling). Maybe they put the wrong price tag on it :-) > You're probably looking at the old edition of F&VD - a 2nd edition has just come out over here. Knowing the prices of Computer Books in the UK, I find it hard to believe you can get it for just 30 quid. Remember, all the publishers do is change the sign at the front of the price - $30 -> #30 :-( >Angus >== >Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, | I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam. >University of Edinburgh, JCMB, | >The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | JANET: ajcd@uk.ac.ed.lfcs >Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. | OR: ajcd%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk spence -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spencer Shanson - All opinions expressed are my own, and do not (necessarily) represent those of Commodore. email: spence@cbmvax spence@cix And the obligatory end-quote: "...., just don't get caught doing it!!"