At 09:59 29-8-01 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
>>Before anyone suggests ordering them from Amazon: Nah. With exchange rates
>>and costs for shipping and handling being what they are, ordering on-line is
>>only useful when ordering a pile of books at once. Otherwise, waiting for
>>the books and buying them once they are published here is a lot cheaper
>>(even with book prices being what they are nowadays).
>
>Jeroen, instead of using www.amazon.com, have you ever tried
>www.amazon.co.uk, the British version of Amazon? I don't know if they
>would get the books at the same time as the US version, but shipping might
>be significantly cheaper.
I ordered from Amazon UK once, but IIRC their shipping rates are comparable
to what Amazon US (and Amazon Germany) charge. The main difference is (not
surprisingly) that Amazon UK sells the UK edition of books instead of the
US edition (and given the cover art I have seen on some US editions, that
*is* something to be thankful for...). The main benefit from choosing
Amazon UK is the shorter distance, which probably means a shorter delivery
time.
An alternative, BTW, is Proxis (www.proxis.be). I have ordered from them
too, and all you pay there is the book price -- no S&H costs. It is still
somewhat of a puzzle though when you want to order several books --
sometimes Amazon is cheaper than Proxis, even when you include S&H,
sometimes Proxis is cheaper. I am not sure if they ship outside Europe, though.
Jeroen
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