Ah, but Orin - here's something to consider.... That book that Mystery Man is getting 3 million for (as an advance) is going to be printed in hard-bound and paperback versions... there will be multiple printings... and it will probably sell at your local Barnes & Noble (fill in bookstore of choice) for - more-than-likely - 20 bucks or less.... when it hits paperback - it will go for less than 10 bucks a copy..... I'm quite sure that Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling and scores of other fiction (and non-fiction) books see hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars for the advance for writing a book. But those are against future royalties for the sale of said book.... it's not Bantam Books or Knopf or _______ (publisher of choice) selling the book to the market place it was intended for at a cost of thousands or millions of dollars.... You're skirting the issue and dodging the point - NMFTA charges far too much for this simple repository of information... and yes, I realize that we're dealing with multiple editions from year to year - with updates and changes included - but look at nearly ANY reference book you can buy - and you'll find that 150 bucks PLUS for the hard-copy is high.... I've purchased many other research and reference books that, too, get updated yearly or some other fixed period, and still many of them are usually available for less than 1/5th of the current price of the SCAC list from NMFTA. But, also, NMFTA is not the only organization/association that is guilty of these egregious charges - even just the X12 standards books are highly priced - but they don't change from year to year - but more from "release version" to "version"....
Craig E. Dunham EDI Coordinator EYE Analyst Big 5 Sporting Goods ________________________________ From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Re: SCAC CODE LIST I don't know if the $155 for the SCAC book is high or not. I haven't seen the NMFTA's financials. However, consider this. A man in my city just got paid $3,000,000 in advance for writing a book. Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
