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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Toolbox Reference Errata
Message-ID: <8905301554.aa14832@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 May 89 19:35:19 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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> >I bought that. You may have noticed in my original post that I don't
> >mind paying for *updates*. It's the bug fixes I'm charged for that
> >piss me off.
>
> Something just occurred to me. The update costs $30. The hardcover
> manual (each volume) costs $26.95. I'm paying more for an update than
> I paid for the original?!?!? You better come up with a good excuse for
> that! Each manual has about 360 nice sheets (720 pages) - about 7.5
> cents per sheet (not including the hardcover), the update has 206
> xeroxed pages (not sheets) - about 29 cents per sheet. THAT makes NO
> sense to me.

The difference is that APDA sells the updates and we all know that
APDA's prices are (IMHO) a rip-off  :-(

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