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Article #437Re: Books and Banks [Was: High Price of Textbooks!]
From: Soh Kam Hung
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 03:54
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 03:54
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Alfredo Ortiz (ortiz@pogo.den.mmc.com) wrote: > [ Anecdote about buying a book cheaper overseas by mail. ] I bought `ISDN and Broadband ISDN' (2nd ed., 1992, Macmillan) hardcover from Malaysia for about Aus$25.00. The same book, paperback, costs about Aus$50.00 in Australia. My copy was printed in the good ol' U. S. of A., while the paperback edition was printed in Singapore. In addition, there is no sales restriction notice or `International student edition' notice in my book. The price difference in my purchase might be an extreme case, but I feel that local distributors are simply charging what a market will bear. Regards, -- Soh Kam Hung phone: +61 3 25-36467 h.soh@trl.oz.au Network Management Research, Telstra Research Laboratories PO Box 249 Rosebank MDC, Clayton, Victoria 3169, Australia
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