From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 08:13:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA07153 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 08:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (dns1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.44.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07007 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 08:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon (platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.96.1]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA15424 ; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:14:16 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 16:14:16 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" X-Sender: stephen@platon To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.org, "Charles B. Robey" Subject: Re: New 4.4BSD book - group buy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > OK, this is about the recently released Addison Wesley book, The Design > and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, by McKusick, Bostic > Karels, and Quarterman. > > I called Readme.doc, and they said they would be happy to offer a > discount, and yes, they would let the agregate of however many FreeBSDers > order count against one big discount pool. They said that they'd be > happy to arrange shipping, tho they would charge $3/per person shipping. > > I didn't ask about any more, but it keeps on in like fashion. They said > that they DO handle European shipping, but it's very expensive on a > book-by book basis. They suggested that maybe someone in Europe could > get all the books (shrinking the shipping costs) and then re-ship there, > to cut the costs. I'm in Maryland, so I can't do that, someone in Europe > is going to have to volunteer that. > > If you want the book, send me Email about it. Make sure you have a good > email return address. Don't send me money, don't send anything like > that, I'm just supposed to get names/numbers. I will send back payment > instructions when I think I have got everyone (1-2 weeks probably). For > folks inthe US, this probably means you'll end up calling Readme.Doc > direct, giving them a credit card number, and referencing the FreeBSD > group-buy. I'm just supposed to get names so they can figure a discount > to offer. > > I'll repost when I get more info, when I get an idea how many folks want > to do this. I have several folks already mailing me, even before I knew > Readme.Doc would do this. For your info, I've been using Readme.Doc for > some time now, because they discount Unix books (like the 4.4BSD manuals > they sold me, and various other O'Reilly books I didn't have to pay full > price for). I have never had anything but good service from them. I'd be interested in getting a copy of this book. If you need a European person to arrange reshipping then I may be able to volunteer if we can sort out how to cover postage. Regards, S. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Butler |stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | |Computer Science Undergraduate. | | |Royal Holloway, University of London.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------