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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Ordering copies of the book
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.060800.29648@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 06:08:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.150429.12630@maths.tcd.ie>
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In-Reply-To: ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge)

In article <1991Feb16.150429.12630@maths.tcd.ie>, ajudge@maths (Alan Judge) writes:
| Can anyone recommend a company that is willing to accept either emailed,
| or faxed credit card orders, to ship books to Ireland?
| [ I originally tried faxing an order to OR&A using the number Randal gave
|   in his original posting.  (I wanted to order direct from the US, because
|   the Irish and UK distributors won't have the book for months.)  I heard
|   nothing for about two weeks, and then got a fax from Addison-Wesley (the UK
|   distributors for OR&A??) saying that they won't have the book in stock till
|   May!!  I'd love to know why OR&A forwarded my order to someone who won't 
|   have copies for ages?  The WHOLE POINT for ordering from the US in the
|   first place was to avoid the delay. 					]

I'm very sorry that international customers are at the mercy of
Addison Wesley.  A/W has the rights to all international distribution
for OR&A's books, so when an order comes in to OR&A, they must forward
it to A/W for handling.  I have been told by my contact at OR&A that
A/W is recieving 1100 (!) books within the next few days.  Hopefully,
after a slow boat-ride across the puddle (in both directions), they'll
start showing up in stores and such.

TECHbooks is prepared to handle the occasional international shipment
of single *autographed* copies only (since A/W is the only authorized
shipper of naked books).  But the freight would probably kill ya,
because you'd be paying for one-up shipping.  Write info@techbook.com
for more assistance.

print "Just another Perl [book] hacker,"
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