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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ARM - where and when?
Message-ID: <48047@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 01:24:48 GMT
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In article <5030001@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes:
>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.
>Looks exactly like the US version, same hard cover, except for a small red
>sticker on the spine saying that it is an ASIAN EDITION. It started to appear
>in the book store here only about a few weeks ago (so there's probably
>about half to one year lag in availability compared to in US). .... But it 
>is here now !

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.

Remember, buying cheap pirated copyright violated books (or software) will
decrease the willingness to produce more.

Regards,
Kent Sandvik

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