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From: wilde@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Nick Wilde)
Subject: Re: BOOKS
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 06:31:31 GMT

In article <51172@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:

>Besides, they aren't all that expensive. You can get all 5 volumes
>from APDA for $125. I paid more for Knuth. On a per volumes basis,
>that $25 per volume, which is cheaper than most other computer texts.

Of course, you're right $125 just isn't all that bad, especially
when books like Foley and Van Dam's "Interactive Graphics" Volume
go for ~$75 now (Yow !).  But you have to remember, to a college
student $125 can be a LOT of money (heck, that'll keep you in
beer for a week :))

In musing about this, it struck me that there's one class of users,
exemplified by a lot of the folks right here, that Apple falls somewhat
short of supporting well, and where Apple could stand to gain an
awful lot by doing a better job. 

I'm referring, of course, to the "student developer" - those guys 
out there (and you know who you are) who bring us wonderful shareware 
and freeware on a shoestring. Seems like Apple has done an awful
lot to get the Mac into the university setting through academic 
discounts for hardware, research grants, etc. - Wouldn't it be
great to sponser the student hackers out there a bit ?

The kind of thing I'm thinking about is akin to the ACM's "student
membership" - for a reduced fee, and with proper documentation
that someone is a full time student, they get, perhaps, a better line
to new documention, reduced prices on developement tools, that sort
of thing...

Well, just some (admittedly not too well thought out) ramblings on my
part... 

-Nick
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Nick Wilde                                           wilde@cs.colorado.edu