Minh Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Jason Grout<[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> William Stein wrote:
>>>> * No glossy printed reference manual
>>> Add "You can't purchase a printed reference manual".  There is a
>>> glossy nice pdf reference manual, but it's not for sale.  I have
>>> printed it out before (for an AMS meeting).   We do sell a tutorial
>>> though, and the royalties (which are nontrivial) go to the Sage
>>> Foundation account.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't someone put a pdf up on lulu or some other print-on-demand
>> service or something that people could buy?
> 
> Earlier this year, David Joyner made a revision of the Sage tutorial
> and then put it up on lulu.com. See here
> 
> http://www.lulu.com/content/1932117
> 
> I think we still have one on Amazon:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Sage-Tutorial-www-sagemath-org-William-Stein/dp/1438214197/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210078569&sr=8-1
> 

Did you notice how the Sage tutorial is appreciating in value, like 
quality antiques

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1438214197/ref=dp_olp_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1210078569&sr=8-1

$10.00 New
$28.88 Used - very good
$29.07 Used - like new

That said, I once see a copy of Steven Wolfram's Mathematica 5 book (out 
of print now) on Amazon for #600 (about $900). Whether it actually sold 
at that price is another matter. I was tempted to stick my own copy on 
there!

It's strange on Amazon. I've seen books advertised at $0.01, and many 
used books advertised at prices well in excess of the cost to buy a new 
copy - sometimes by more than $100.



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