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Re: big sale at Oxford UP

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:22
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On Dec 6, 1:00 pm, Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer
<anonym...@remailer.cyberiade.it> wrote:
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > On Dec 6, 9:33 am, Raving <raving.loo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Dec 6, 7:17 am, N...@remailer.metacolo.com,
> > > R...@remailer.metacolo.com, Hubb...@remailer.metacolo.com wrote:
> > > > "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > > > > Oxford University Press and amazon are selling 33 language &
> > > > > linguistics titles for very cheap, including The World's Writing
> > > > > Systems for $46.48. Someone sent me this tiny url, but if it doesn't
> > > > > work after being copy-pasted, you'd need to hunt around in amazon for
> > > > > "Oxford store sale."
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> > > > >http://tinyurl.com/2ccqlc
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> > > > Shameless plug.
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> > > > Buy this book and pay royalties to one of the biggest, foulest mouths
> > > > on usenet?
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> > > > I don't think so.
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> > > Is that the remaindered price?-
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> > It's approximately the price they've been selling it at for years; we
> > were never given the opportunity of a revision for a paperback because
> > "the hardcover market is not exhausted." And since they've been
> > selling it at a paperback price for years, it seems unlikely that it
> > ever will be.
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> > I don't even know how many printings there have been.
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> > BTW the royalty amounts to 1/2 (because there are two editors) of 5%
> > of the price they sell a copy for, i.e. the wholesale price.
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> Clean up your act and we'll think about it.-

Who is "we"? Under what name do you regularly post to sci.lang, coward?
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Subject: Re: big sale at Oxford UP
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