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From: sa@crlt.UUCP (scott almburg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Priced for the Masses?
Message-ID: <668@crlt.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 16:26:54 EST
Article-I.D.: crlt.668
Posted: Sat Mar  7 16:26:54 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 03:07:22 EST
Organization: CRLT , Ann Arbor, MI
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Keywords: disk tape distribution.

Summary:  ... why don't you order book from P.H. in the states?


> 
> It costs about 80 dollars, I believe, in the States and so I thought that it
> should be 65 pounds or so here. NOT SO. Shock Horror! Upon 'phoning Prentice/
> Hall I find that the cost here is 98 pounds 38 pence!!!
> 
> How do they justify this? Are the cost of tapes/disks that much higher here?
> Did the exchange rate go haywire overnight? Am I being mean and stingy?

well, why don't you order it from p.h. in the states,  and have them ship it
to the U.K?

The address on the card in the back of my book is:

Book Distribution Center
P.H. Inc
route 59 at Brook Hill  Dr.
West Nyack, New York  10995


640k pc 58387-2 $79.95
256k pc 58388-0 $79.95
     AT 58386-4 $79.95
9 track tape 58389-8 $79.95

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