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Subject: Re: Update on the International Availability of My Book

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:21:31 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 10:54:14, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Following up on the bad news about delays in the international
>delivery of my book "Scalable Search in Computer Chess", I am
>now able to provide some more details on this sad story ... :-(
>
>-----
>
>In response to my request as of yesterday, the publisher Vieweg
>Verlag confirmed the initial shipment of book copies to their
>international distributor Morgan Kaufmann in the US. Unfortunately,
>however, the shipment never reached its destination and was
>delared "lost in transit" by the transport service. Currently, the
>matter seems to be a sticky insurance case.
>
>-----
>
>Finally, the _good_ news: in order to take care and please
>international customers, Morgan Kaufmann and Vieweg Verlag work
>on an agreement for immediate remedy.
>
>You might be able to speed up the remedy process by complaining
>again with your distributor and with Vieweg's distribution officer
>Ruediger Pech <ruediger.pech@bertelsmann.de>.
>
>Good luck and sorry for the inconvenience,
>
>=Ernst=
>
>P.S.
>Please find more detailed information about the book at URL
>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/node1.html.

They were probably stolen by the same guys who stole the Oscars.  I wonder if I
can get the local Barnes & Nobel store to order it for me, they'll order books
if they show up on their computers as being in print.

Pete



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