[oak perl] Ken is Back

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Fri Jun 13 10:40:48 CDT 2003


On Friday 13 June 2003 4:41 am, Ken Chow wrote:
> ...
> Anyway, I was in Barnes and Noble today looking for a
> book about a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club when I
> happened upon a discounted copy of "Advanced Perl
> Programming" (O'Reilly) selling for $10.00 (American
> not Canadian).  I'm not sure if that means an updated
> Edition is soon to appear or what (and if "what", just
> what is what?). 

That does seem like an awfully good price.
I see $24.47 on Amazon (with a low of $6.48 for used).
$10 for a book on the shelf. That's cheap.

I see prices more than double or even triple 
the Barnes & Noble on the shelf price that you saw.
So that's big savings too. 

But consider this: in the O'Reilly catalog entry,
the publication date is listed as August 1997. That's old.

So, does anyone who has the book
think it would be worth buying now?
And does anyone know the answer to Ken's questions?





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