Re: [ossig] Books - costs and online resources

["Chan YH" <cyhoong@pc.jaring.my>]

I  usually request  University Book Store to order my books overseas
whenever I found a book I wanted in Internet.
The price seems to slightly cheaper than from bigger bookstore especially if
they are in their "panel" of publisher.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Imran William Smith" <iwsmith@mimos.my>
To: <ossig@mncc.com.my>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:21 AM
Subject: [ossig] Books - costs and online resources


> True.
>
> It's bad, Malaysia is the most expensive
> country I know for book costs compared to income, making
> the high priced computer books very inaccessible.
>
> Does anybody know why many Asian countries have 'Asian
> edition' books which are cheaper than the USD equivalent,
> but not here?
>
> So, my proposal
> is that everybody needs to get a credit card and
> start buying things online from the large, reputable
> sources.  Otherwise the online sales industry will
> never take off in this country, and Kinokuniya and MPH
> can continue their monopoly in high-rental locations,
> meaning higher cost books. Books should be a commodity,
> not a luxury!
>
>
>
> However the open content movement is expanding, more and
> more books are being published online under open licenses,
> as well as in paid, paper versions.
>
> "Government Policy Towards Open Source" - full book online:
> http://www.aei.brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=296
> (lots more of their full books online as well)
>
> Other O'Reilly Open Books - Full Content Online
> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
>
>
>
> Kinokuniya Malaysia Online
> http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=05
>
> MPH Malaysia Online
> http://www.mph.com.my/
>
> Amazon
> http://www.amazon.com
>
>
>
>
> Imran
>
>
>
> kean wrote:
> > for me, I guess sometime it's good to have something
> > to hold on your hand and it's better for your eye too.
> > but the book, it's too expensive here, we should make
> > knowledge cheaper to enquire. Internet does help to
> > give us the explosure but becuase of not well
> > organized or the intended reader scope is too large,
> > we might end up spending more time(money) and effort
> > in it at the end.
> > well, either reading book or internet, the best way to
> > know is by asking the right question to the right
> > people, it's always faster. I'm really impress by the
> > "asking question" culture and try to learn from there.
> >
> > kean
> >
> >
> > --- Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my> wrote:
> >
> >>BTW,
> >>
> >>There's a book with all these acronyms in KLCC's
> >>Kinokuniya,
> >>although why would anyone would buy a book when
> >>there are
> >>so many online lists?
> >>
> >>
> >>http://lingo2word.com/index.php
> >>http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/
> >>
> >>
> >>Imran
> >>
> >>
> >>Dinesh Nair wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Venantius Kumar wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>just wanted to know what does IIRC and IANAL
> >>
> >>means.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>iirc, and mind you, ianal, iirc is If I Remember
> >>
> >>Correctly and ianal is I
> >>
> >>>Am Not A Lawyer. :)
> >>>
> >>>Regards,                           /\_/\   "All
> >>
> >>dogs go to heaven."
> >>
> >>>dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)
> >>
> >>http://www.alphaque.com/
> >>
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