Mark, when do you expect the book to be ready ? I preordert the book at amazin.de but there is no delivery date.
Thanks Reinhard On Friday, 26. October 2007 08:59:08 Mark Summerfield wrote: > On 2007-10-25, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > > On 10/26/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I expect the American response to overpriced books is much the same as > > > the European one: make a .torrent and put it on the .net > > > > Here in India, publishers usually come out with very cheap editions of > > all these technical books (photocopy on low quality paper) > > I know that at least one previous book (C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4) > was made available in India in a special "Indian edition" that was > supposed to be cheaper, although I've never seen one. I have seen > Russian (translated) editions though, and they are usually scaled down > slightly in size and printed on thinner paper, again to make them > cheaper I suppose. On the other hand, German editions always seem to be > hardbacks on really good paper stock. > > BTW It is too early to know about special editions or translations yet > since decisions about these seem to be made based on how well a book > does in the US market. > > > Btw, this is the same with movies as well ... increasing piracy has > > caused some Indian companies like Moser Baer to produce extremely > > cheap *legal* editions of any given movie - usually latest releases. > > > > They are sold on the roadside alongside cheap Chinese goods or second > > hand books. In fact, it is cheaper to buy a legal movie CD than to buy > > a blank CD or in fact, to have a nice lunch. > > > > Btw, Mark: congrats on your new book! I'm sure it will really be > > helpful for us trying to learn and teach PyQt. I will try to source it > > here and recommend it to my students, friends and colleagues. > > Thanks--I really hope you'll find it useful! > > > Regards > > Rajeev J Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > > PyQt mailing list [email protected] > > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
