On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:19, David Boddie wrote: > On Thu Oct 25 12:56:25 BST 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > In Amazon Germany its even 63.3 euros, which makes about 90 us$, thats > > almost double the normal price of the book as shipped in the US. > > > > I could find it quite a bit cheaper at libri.de, its 42,74 euro there, > > which is still more than 10 dollar more than the original price from > > prentice hall. If I buy directly from prentice hall, I'd pay 67$ > > including shipping, AFAICS > > I thought I'd see if I could find a lower price in the Euro zone, or a > price outside that would correspond to a lower price. > > I used kelkoo.co.uk first, then tried their service in other regions. > Here's what I found: > > United Kingdom: 23.75 GBP (~34 EUR) > http://books.theregister.co.uk/catalog/browse.asp?ref=863830 > Apparently, shipping would be free if the price was over 25 GBP. :-( > Otherwise, it appears that delivery to Europe is 7.95 GBP (~11 EUR)! > (http://books.theregister.co.uk/info/payment_delivery.asp) > > Norway: 297 NOK (~38 EUR) > http://www.capris.no/product.aspx?isbn=0132354187 > Shipping appears to be free (within Norway, I suppose), but that may > depend on my interpretation of the word "fraktfritt"! > (http://www.capris.no/customerservice.aspx) > > The first price shouldn't include any tax. I'm not certain what the > situation is with tax on books in Norway, so I don't know if the price is > inclusive of tax or not.
I think it makes sense to look around for the best price, but I guess I don't understand the complaining about the price. I've got a copy of Stroustrup's C++ Programming Language that cost me $65 probably 5 years ago or more. I don't use it much, but the binding is falling apart, and it's not even a language I like. And considering what my daughter pays for college textbooks (actually what I pay for her books), Mark's book seems pretty reasonably priced - this isn't going to make the bestseller lists (no reflection on Mark - there just aren't that many PyQt users, although I've heard the plot is weak too), or even sell as many copies as the average college text. Considering we get free software that actually works and free, fast online support from the author of the software and the author of the book and the lead tech writer at TrollTech plus the other really knowledgeable people on this list, it doesn't seem to me that the price is that bad when you take all that into account. I can sympathize with people who have a hard time coming up that amount of money - I've been there. But then again, esp considering the Windows users who fork out a lot of money to Microsoft for software with less quality and support (even if it came 'free' with your computer) - I guess I don't think it's that bad to send less money than the price of Windows to Mark and someone willing to publish him. He can probably make better use of the money than Bill Gates. (I'd say less than Linux too, but I've been buying distros at CheapBytes, and most of you probably download). Divide the cost of the book by 4 for Qt, PyQt, Python and the book itself, and the price doesn't look too bad at all. Just my 2 cents - (and if I post enough of these you can cash them in and buy the book - but do it before the dollar falls even more). Now I have to go remove the cat from the microwave ... Jim _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
