At 4:26 PM -0600 02-28-2000, j.urban wrote:
>> Amazon is also useful as a source of reviews of the two MySQL books,
>> whether you buy from them or not. I'm not aware of any other online
>> reviews at bookseller sites.
>
>That's just ridiculous. Most on-line booksellers have user-submitted
>reviews.
>
>I just did a quick check of a few sites and the following all allow you to
>enter a reader review:
>
>Borders
>Barnes and Noble
>BookPool
>Internet Bookshop
Allow me to clarify. Amazon is the only site that I know of that
actually *has* reviews of the New Riders books.
>
>The thing is, Amazon has more customers, therefore they are more likely to
>have more reviews...
>
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Paul DuBois wrote:
>
>> At 6:32 PM +0000 02-28-2000, Nicholas Brandon wrote:
>> >Due to some highly recommended reviews, I am looking at purchasing this
>> >book.
>> >
>> >However, at Amazon.com it says it is 850 pages and at Amazon.co.uk (where I
>> >would like to buy it from) it says 450 pages. Can someone (who has the book
>> >preferably) tell me which one is correct - Or is there a different version
>> >for US or UK.
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >Nick Brandon
>>
>>
>> Neither is correct. There are 756 pages + 29 pages of introductory stuff
>> (table of contents, intro, etc.). There's also some extra stuff at the
>> back describing other titles by New Riders. Altogether about 800 pages if
>> you count it all.
>>
>> The discrepancies come about because publishers are anxious to get info
>> out to the booksellers as early as possible. The early info is bound to
>> be incorrect, but then getting the sellers to update their listings is
>> a big problem. For instance, Amazon lists the publisher as Other New
>> Riders, when it's just New Riders, and they don't have the correct cover
>> image. It took a while just to get them to correct my last name from
>> Dubois to DuBois.
>>
>> I have no particular view of the Amazon controversy, although I do find
>> it interesting to watch the book ranking go up and down, and Amazon is the
>> only one that has it. The lowest price I've seen is at Bookpool.com.
>> Amazon is slightly higher (for a long while they were showing it a full
>> list, for some reason).
>>
>> Amazon is also useful as a source of reviews of the two MySQL books,
>> whether you buy from them or not. I'm not aware of any other online
>> reviews at bookseller sites. There's a review of my book and other
>> PHP-related books at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/products.html
>>
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