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From: bart@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Bart Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
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Date: 28 Apr 88 14:49:46 GMT
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In article <484@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>
>I called the 800 number.  The price they gave was, if I remember
>correctly, $39 for six bimonthly issues, which seems pretty steep.  
>The woman who answered did not know if there was any trial offer, 
>or whether you could cancel after one issue if you didn't want to 
>continue.
>

Welcome to the world of private journals.  This price is actually quite
low for a non-society (IEEE, ACM, etc.) journal.  E.g., "Software--Practice
and Experience", published by Wiley, costs $260/year (12 issues per year).

						--bart miller
						  uw-madison cs dept
						  bart@cs.wisc.edu
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