On 25.10.07 13:33:54, Mark Summerfield wrote: > On 2007-10-25, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 25.10.07 13:38:15, alteo_gange wrote: > > > Le jeudi 25 octobre 2007, Gustavo A. Díaz a écrit : > > > > A shame that I can't buy here in Argentina :( > > > > And the cost for me is to much to buy it in Amazon for example > > > > (including the international delivery)... > > > > > > It's a big problem. > > > > > > I live in France. > > > > > > With amazon.fr : > > > 54.47 euros = 77.412764 dollars > > > > In Amazon Germany its even 63.3 euros, which makes about 90 us$, thats > > almost double the normal price of the book as shipped in the US. > > > > I could find it quite a bit cheaper at libri.de, its 42,74 euro there, > > which is still more than 10 dollar more than the original price from > > prentice hall. If I buy directly from prentice hall, I'd pay 67$ > > including shipping, AFAICS > > > > I sonder wether its such a special area of interest that those shops > > have to lift the price to make any profit from it or wether they're just > > insane. > > > > Andreas > > > > PS: Mark, I know you can't do anything about, just wanted to > > I can understand your frustration.
Not really frustration, more astonishment that they get away with it :) > Of course, I don't have any control over the pricing, and this isn't > just about my particular book---my guess is that outside the US > booksellers sell for whatever they think the market will bear. Yeah, US citizens would file a lawsuit if they'd see this happening to them. In good old Europe people just take it as is. > Despite this, I still buy technical books because I (usually:-) enjoy > reading them, and they often pay back in terms of time saved. No doubt, I'd have a shelf full of technical books (and only 3 of them read), if I'd just have the money ;) Andreas -- Don't you wish you had more energy... or less ambition? _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
