UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (08/19/88)
Yesterday I called three Amiga mail order places trying to find Rob Peck's Programmer's Guide to the Amiga (correct title?) published by Sybex. No luck. Can someone suggest where I might find one? I tried Go Amigo, Computer Discount, and the Software Shop.
rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) (09/02/88)
In article <50330UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: > Yesterday I called three Amiga mail order places trying to find Rob Peck's > Programmer's Guide to the Amiga (correct title?) published by > Sybex. > > No luck. > > Can someone suggest where I might find one? > I tried Go Amigo, Computer Discount, and the Software Shop. SYBEX has sold somewhere over 10K copies of the book, with relatively little advertising (I guess they have a cadre of salesmen wandering around here and there pushing their book lines and have had not much need, they seem to feel, for direct advertising.) For a while, there, it was carried in both B.Dalton and Crown, but alas, it seems that even though B.Dalton has it in their microfiche, if you order it from them it could take 6 weeks or more to get, if they get it at all. Part of that was a temporary out of print condition, which has since been resolved. The problem, I find, is that Amiga Distributors (6, 8, 12, howmany-there-are) don't carry the SYBEX line and I don't quite know why. And the situation is this -- an owner of an Amiga Computer Shop, or Amiga Mail Order Business, stocks (some/all) of ONLY what the distributor provides, cause that's all he knows about -- if the distributor thinks that enough people will buy it, (and can get a large enough profit from it as a result), then HE stocks it, so the dealer can figure that nuff folks will come in asking for it that when it is stocked, the dealer will sell all that he buys and therefore profit by it. But with minimal advertising, maybe users don't even know it exists, even though, as I have been told, it is helpful (and some even say a good book). (sigh) As an independent software vendor, just TRY to get a distributor to carry your stuff. Do they know you? Are you willing to place an AD in THEIR brochure? SO, there is a compromise to be made... advertise or else, so I did. There is an advertisement for the Programmers Guide To The Amiga that will appear in the Commodore Mag Buyers Guide to the Amiga, scheduled to be packed into each box with each unit sold beginning about 10/2/88. Because of a current lack of dealer/bookstore carrying the book, as a service to my potential readers, I am making the book available via direct mail from: DATAPATH, P.O.Box 1828, Los Gatos, CA 95031-1828 $28 buys the book, includes the source/object disk (normally $15 separately), and postage for US First Class delivery. $32 to addresses outside the USA. DATAPATH orders directly from SYBEX and keeps them in stock all the time. Thats what the ad says. This (pseudo-commercial) posting is done primarily as a service to those who want the book but cannot find it. I am pursuing other avenues, including making an open offer to dealers and distributors to allow the free duplication of the source/object diskette one-for-one with each copy of the book they sell. I don't mind the competition (in fact, I would rather NOT be the only known source for the book --- aaaarrrgghhh). Dealers can write to the same address to get a letter of permission for duplicating the disk, and contact SYBEX directly to order the book for stock. Often people like to pick up something and fondle it before they buy, not to mention checking out the table of contents and read a paragraph or two. Rob Peck CLAIMER (not disclaimer) -- DATAPATH is me.
ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) (09/03/88)
In article <573@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes: ]In article <50330UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: ]> Yesterday I called three Amiga mail order places trying to find Rob Peck's ]> Programmer's Guide to the Amiga (correct title?) published by ]> Sybex. ]> No luck. ]> Can someone suggest where I might find one? ]it was carried in both B.Dalton and Crown, but alas, it seems that even ]though B.Dalton has it in their microfiche, if you order it from them ]it could take 6 weeks or more to get, if they get it at all. Part of ]that was a temporary out of print condition, which has since been ]resolved. Gee, I think B. Dalton must have fixed this because I got mine from them in 4 days (They told me it'd take 10 days.) Ordered it on sat. and got it on tues. This was 2 weeks ago. ]Rob Peck Walt -- ------ Walter Reed ------ + uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed or ncreed@ndsuvax.BITNET "There's no point in being + or ncreed@plains.NoDak.edu grown up if you can't be + childish sometimes!" Dr. Who + USnAIL: 925 9th Ave W. West Fargo, ND 58078
robert@trwind.UUCP (Robert W. Snyder) (09/08/88)
Robert Snyder >Yesterday I called three Amiga mail order places trying to find Rob Peck's >Programmer's Guide to the Amiga (correct title?) published by >Sybex. > >No luck. > >Can someone suggest where I might find one? >I tried Go Amigo, Computer Discount, and the Software Shop. Creative computing. They have an ad in this months Amiga World -- Robert Snyder Disclaimer -- nobody claims dis, but me TRW Information Networks Division 23800 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance CA 90505 USENET: {ucbvax,ihnp4,sdcrdcf}!trwrb!trwind!robert ARPA: robert@trwind.TRW.COM Ph 213-373-9161