From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 04 12:22:38 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxSQ9-0002Xm-Jb for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:22:38 -0800 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxSQ6-0002XZ-Hv for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:22:37 -0800 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 30so1338526nfu.46 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:22:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=I/HNGRAnPWP4+J2A3UkXrb5cDIHIICzJGwQs1aI3jpQ=; b=nMKIqBAv+35rBeUvdDD5FsAQraNlA8V00Sdqmc4YpsFiQvUBIKjt+CBxtA67VhJXNx pkbYCkNkz/4ErO7sHELcQKnPCtiKvkdT69VGBekhETgWveMpRZuN6WFlzfVIglnlf5l9 ETO1YS4of4IT+YkdQ8IQDH+JjYzs5WMYHT9ag= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=mPsciapBHdZ164vjMBc9etv0z6O1qKq9QLBKx602BClotJRdSkd6HDT0BlFxySi8D5 Z16ynh9bLjMtHOTR59vTZ2X3T3nKDS7rSzgYiOPTzZhSiKc4m9LdueYQvjyTAYoHXh+f m/XI+ilppq+r62nrgMrsPyJ9YUP+LsGnlJQwg= Received: by 10.210.82.2 with SMTP id f2mr952ebb.104.1225830152887; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.142.8 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:22:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5715b9300811041222o3cf96c27y2d1104f90013a36b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:22:32 -0500 From: "Luke Bergen" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: misaligned words in the LRG In-Reply-To: <20081104200857.GW2447@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_93034_10310007.1225830152324" References: <5715b9300811041057s6e34d854y119d22944640fc6a@mail.gmail.com> <20081104193233.GX20021@digitalkingdom.org> <5715b9300811041153m7269b346qe5b408a8b6b78a10@mail.gmail.com> <20081104200857.GW2447@nvg.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 986 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lukeabergen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_93034_10310007.1225830152324 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline well that's a relief. I like to have a hard copy of a book that I'm reading and I was *not* looking forward to shelling out $200 On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:53:47PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote: > > > Also, why when I search for the CLL book on amazon do I only get > > > http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Lojban-Language-John-Cowan/dp/0966028309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225828326&sr=8-1for > > almost $200?! Is amazon just jacking up the price for some reason [...] > > These are the same books. > > What happened is that some years ago, Amazon decided that it would no > longer deal with small-time publishers, such as us. So, for a long time it > was completely unavailable from Amazon. > > Since then, Amazon has started a program in which private persons and > companies can offer used books for sale mediated by Amazon. These sellers > are, as you have seen, charging exorbitant prices. Perhaps in the assumption > that it's out of print. Which it's not; the LLG still has plenty of copies > left. > > The LLG is currently discussing how to get a better presence on Amazon > (perhaps by distributing CLLs to members who can then sell them on Amazon). > We are also discussing ways to get shorter turn-around times in order > fullfilment. > > -- > Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ > Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. (Wethern's Law) > > > > ------=_Part_93034_10310007.1225830152324 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline well that's a relief.  I like to have a hard copy of a book that I'm reading and I was not looking forward to shelling out $200

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:53:47PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:

> Also, why when I search for the CLL book on amazon do I only get
> http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Lojban-Language-John-Cowan/dp/0966028309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225828326&sr=8-1for
> almost $200?!  Is amazon just jacking up the price for some reason [...]

These are the same books.

What happened is that some years ago, Amazon decided that it would no longer deal with small-time publishers, such as us. So, for a long time it was completely unavailable from Amazon.

Since then, Amazon has started a program in which private persons and companies can offer used books for sale mediated by Amazon. These sellers are, as you have seen, charging exorbitant prices. Perhaps in the assumption that it's out of print. Which it's not; the LLG still has plenty of copies left.

The LLG is currently discussing how to get a better presence on Amazon (perhaps by distributing CLLs to members who can then sell them on Amazon). We are also discussing ways to get shorter turn-around times in order fullfilment.

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. (Wethern's Law)




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