Author: Dan Newman
Date: 14:18:52 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 17:02:49, Pete Galati wrote: >I tried to order Scalable Search in Computer Chess by Ernst A. Heinz through >Barnes&Nobel on april 14th, but they just called me back today and said it was >out of print and they can't get a copy, so I argued, & they gave me the number >of Academic Press 800-313-1277, I guess they're the USA ditributer of Morgan >Kaufmann books... same story, out of print, no more stock! > >And it's not like you can chew the person out on the phone for something that's >completly out of that person's hands. So this is very irritating. > >Has anyone seen this book yet? If this book is selling so well that the stock >is allready gone, then another printing would be good. > >It's not like I expect Scalable Search to have great distribution like it was >Oprah's book of the month, but does it need to be this difficult? > >Pete I just got mine a couple of days ago...I ordered it towards the end of Januanry via AP and got back an out-of-stock notice a few weeks later. I wasn't sure they'd ever fill the order and debated whether to attempt to cancel the order and re-order through Amazon, but I decided that that was too risky and held on... -Dan.
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