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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ARM - where and when?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.040912.3969@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 14 Jan 91 04:09:12 GMT
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>>If you are coming to South East Asia in the near future, you might consider
>>buying ARM here (Singapore, Malaysia etc. etc.). I just bought my copy
>>last week for S$28 (US$1 ~= S$1.7). i.e. about US$17. It is an ASIAN EDITION.
>
>Just FYI, I've seen Stroustrup's classical C++ book printed in Hongkong, and
>it was a cloned, ripped off, "no money back to the originator" edition.
>
>You usually recognize these pirated books from the cover; cheap imitations
>of the real ones. I would not personally support buying these pirated versions,
>don't know if the book above one is a pirated or not, but the ASIAN edition
>label sounds weird.

Take it easy. Some are legit. I got The Design and Implementation of
the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System for S$28 hardcover, Koenig's C Traps
and Pitfalls for S$12.20.  PH has also been selling paperback student
editions of Tannenbaum's books for a long time.

If you look inside an AW book you'll see AW has offices in Singapore.