Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!mrd From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Pricing info on Foley, van Dam, etc. 2nd Edition Keywords: Foley + Van Dam + Feiner + Hughes + Scotland = Cheap! Message-ID: <4314@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 4 Oct 90 10:52:31 GMT References: <1548@madnix.UUCP> <927@ap542.uucp> <2203@charon.cwi.nl> <477@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <14820@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: University of Southampton, UK Lines: 42 In <14820@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes: >In article <477@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ajcd@cs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) writes: >>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. No, Its true. 29.95 (sterling) is the price I paid too. In fact, in the original literature I saw from AW it was listed at 27.95, but I don't begrudge them the extra two quid. Worth every penny. >>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!!" -- Mark Dobie M.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) University of Southampton M.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)