Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:4169 rec.music.folk:7301 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!bush From: bush@prg.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,rec.music.folk Subject: Re: Ordering copies of the book Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 10:43:28 GMT References: <1991Feb16.150429.12630@maths.tcd.ie> <1991Feb18.060800.29648@iwarp.intel.com> <1991Feb19.084533.2214@tsa.co.uk> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory Lines: 30 In-reply-to: domo@tsa.co.uk's message of 19 Feb 91 08:45:33 GMT In article <1991Feb19.084533.2214@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: > In article <1991Feb18.060800.29648@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com > (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > > 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. > > A-W's action seems, in the best tradition of publishing, to be designed > to maximize its income from the deal without necessarily maximizing > sales of the books. > > Moral. You gotta watch distributors! The word I got from A-W was that OR&A were not giving them the distribution until May. They seemed to imply that it was a hold-up on the part of OR&A that means that books are not getting over here (or to any non-US places, I guess). Does anyone have the scoop on this? I was hoping to do an order for a few people over here to cut shipping costs, but it seems that bulk orders are a no-go and shipping at $20-25 per copy is not my idea of fun. I don't want to end up with a phone bill the size of an average defense budget by phoning OR&A myself. The question, I guess, is who really *is* responsibly for the distributions? Is it really OR&A or is A-W giving me the brush-off? Mark