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From: APEARSON%WAYNEST1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Patrick Haggood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Prentice-Hall too fouled up for words
Message-ID: <13312@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 89 02:41:33 GMT
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> if possible, buy Minix from a Bookstore....

Y'know, I tried that, as I am one who believes that waiting 4-6 weeks
for delivery is asnine (the pony express doesn't still use ponies, does
it?).  However, after being shunted around various departments as was
Norbert (at least we all know phone transfer works) they told me that they
could send it to my campus bookstore (Barnes and Noble) but they had to
charge B&N full price, meaning I would have paid the 80 buck plus B&N's
standard markup (putting it somewhere between $110 and $130).

Tell me again how we live in a modern world.....

Oh, and in reply to your rhetorical question about how they sell books,
I've seen worse, but I've had to look damn hard.