That's why...they're no longer being printed. Anything you see on shelves or in stores is backstock. Peer Information Services, which owned Wrox and several other publishing houses (like Friends of Ed) liquidated in March, 2003.
Apress and Wiley picked up most of the assets....the books that will be supported will be reprinted using Apress and Wiley covers and get a new ISBN. A perfect example of this is "Beginning Java Objects" by Jacquie Barker...it was a very popular Wrox book, it is now available as an Apress book with a different cover, different typesetting, different editorial team, etc. The content is the same, and the copyright is still 2000.
So....if you see a Wrox book at full price, you can probably deal with the seller to get a discount if one isn't already offered. The sad thing is, the authors will never see any of that money, so if you really want to support the authors and encourage similar titles, buy the Apress or Wiley version instead.
John
Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
John Turner wrote:
The book was never published. The original publisher (Wrox) went out of business and liquidated assets.
Was this recently? Just this past weekend I picked up a Wrox press book (Java Data) and it was 50% off. All of their books at Borders were 50% off.
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