Your user group should be able to offer discounts through partners like O'Reilly and Peachpit - I know ours does. And they have been very generous to the User Group library in the past.
On 21/07/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Amazon is one problem here, or rather one solution. > > First if you buy more than 1 book at a time, it's less expensive to send > it > half way around the world from Amazon than buy it locally. > > The local book stores all think we are too dumb to figure that out so keep > their prices high, people stop buying so they stock less, I'm not sure > they > have clicked yet. I don't even go into the stores any more, straight to > Amazon, if Amazon had a base or cheaper shipping to AU then the book > stores > might as well close. > > The second part of the problem is that rather than buy a book to learn > stuff > you can download an ebook both legally and illegally. Personally can't > read > a book on the computer screen. > > But the third and probably most important part is that people just don't > buy > books as much, because they don't use them as much. Why buy a book when I > can just google the question and get the answer. > > Still, i'll buy the CF reference set and probably Ben's CF8 books again > (from Amazon again), but must admit I hardly read or referenced the CF7 > bit. > > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > http://dalefraser.blogspot.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Geoff Bowers > Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2007 4:51 PM > To: cfaussie > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion Books > > > On Jul 18, 2:57 pm, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it just me or is the only place to buy a CF book online? I live in > > Melbourne (work in the CBD) and have visited 5 book shops in the past > > few days in search of "Ben Forta's Advance CF..." (or any CF book) but > > can't find one anywhere! In fact it seems that all book shop > > "computer" sections have been reducing quite rapidly in the last year > > - 9 months ago I was after a MySQL book and I'm sure the section was > > twice as big! > > > > Perhaps this means that everyone who tried to jump onto the IT wagon > > realised that a book won't make you an expert in months! > > Would have to agree... was browsing Borders, Bondi Junction and they > have possibly the most woeful selection of IT books (with the > exception of MS Office, and social engineering crap on blogging and > iPods). They're trying to palm off Dreamweaver 4 texts as current to > give you some idea. The shelves for Mac are covered in Panther books > (Tiger is the current release and Leopard is due out in a month or > so). The list of tragedies goes on. > > I love a good technical book -- a real one that is.. still haven't > managed to buy into this eBook concept. I guess its Amazon all the > way these days. > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > > > -- Peter Tilbrook ColdGen Internet Solutions President, ACT and Region ColdFusion Users Group PO Box 2247 Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620 AUSTRALIA http://www.coldgen.com/ http://www.actcfug.com/ Tel: +61-2-6284-2727 Mob: +61-0432-897-437 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger Live: Desktop General --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
