Re: tlug: buying Linux/UNIX/Internetworking related books in Tokyo

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> >Can someone tell me where I can find basic books of Linux (The Bible, etc...)
> >and some more other related to UNIX & Internetworking in Tokyo? Since I
> 
> One of the best places to get books in Tokyo is in your mailbox. :-)
> I've had great luck ordering from http://www.bookpool.com/ and having
> the books DHLed to my door.  Orders on Friday seem to arrive the following
> Monday or Tuesday.  If you are buying two or more books, you can often
> beat the local price, even including air shipping.

Amazon is also a good source (www.amazon.com)  If you buy certain books, a
percentage of the proceeds goes to the developers, too.  ie, I think if
you buy the Oreilly perl or python books, the maintainers of perl or
python get some $$ directly.  Maybe they stopped doing this, though, I'm
not sure.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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