Message-ID: <200101082302.PAA22459@home.salter-point.com>
Date: 2001-01-08T23:02:42Z
From: Michael M. Meyer
Subject: S Programming Book at Amazon.com
In-Reply-To: Message from s-luppescu@uchicago.edu of "Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:20:56 CST." <XFMail.20010108142056.s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>
It was in stock, this morning. Some of us even bought a copy :-).
s-luppescu at uchicago.edu said:
> On 08-Jan-2001 Bill Oliver wrote:
> As of a moment ago (9 a.m., Monday, Jan. 8, 2001), the S Programming
> book by
> Venables and Ripley was once again selling for 17.98 American dollars
> at
> Amazon.com. Alas, I notice that "Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus"
> by
> Pinheiro and Bates now lists at Amazon for 97.25 American dollars, as
> opposed to about $70 a little while ago.
> Yeah, but S Programming is out of stock. It's like that old joke:
> A woman goes into a produce store and asks the price of broccoli. The
> clerk tells her it's 0.89 a pound. She says, ``But down the street
> it's only 0.49 a pound.'' ``Well, why don't you buy it there?'' the
> clerk asks. ``They don't have any more in stock,'' she replies.
> ``Well, when we're out of it, it's 0.49 a pound here, too.''
> ________________________________________________________________
Mike Meyer, Salter Point Associates, Seattle WA
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