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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Britannica - their obnoxious salesmen
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:21:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov05.172627.6307@eng.umd.edu> <1992Nov6.062249.20338@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes:
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- }My recollection was that the least expensive (non-leather-bound) edi-
- }tion cost something like $1300. As I said, this was a few years ago,
- }and the low-end price may well be different now.
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- Frankly, I don't see how they can sell any at that price in this day and
- age. For not much more than that, you can get yourself an inexpensive
- computer, a CD-ROM drive, and an encyclopedia on CD-ROM. Now you not
- only have an encyclopedia, but you can play Pac-Man. If you already have
- a computer, you can buy a CD-ROM drive and the encyclopedia CD for less
- than half the cost of the books. And if you already have a computer and
- a CD-ROM drive . . . Not to even mention that, with the books, you're
- stuck with that edition forever. Once you've got the computer and CD-ROM
- drive, a few hundred dollars -- or less in most cases -- will get you
- the latest edition of the encyclopedia. Not to even mention that CD
- encyclopedias now have movies and animations (having trouble explaining
- to your child how a four-stroke engine works? Just call up the engine
- article and SHOW him). Trying putting one of those in a book.
-
- --James Preston
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